Barrier writes to inform his family that they will have an opportunity to send him "a box of something to eat" soon: "Lieutenant McAllister started home yesterday on sick furlough for fourteen days [and] he told me that he would bring me a small box of tricks if you would take it to Concord." Barrier adds that there is another lieutenant in the regiment, a very nice man, who would like a pair of shoes made along the lines of Barrier's own: "If you get the shoes made charge them to me and let me know what they are worth."