Scope and Contents "I have no doubt," begins Barrier, "but you have been expecting to hear from me before now, but I have put it off from day to day hoping that I might improve in health before writing." He says he is a little better than he was before he left home, but is still in the division field hospital. The previous Thursday, he says, there was a general engagement along the Petersburg-Richmond line, and the enemy fared poorly: "A yankey Colonel under flag of truce acknowledged their losses from all...