Scope and Contents "I have no doubt," begins Barrier, "but there is a great deal of anxiety upon the minds of the friends of my regiment since the fall of Wilmington. I am happy to inform you that we are all safe so far." He writes on the go, sixteen miles south of Magnolia on the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad. Arrangements have been made, he says, to exchange ten thousand prisoners on the banks of the Northeast River. He reports that Wilmington was evacuated on 23 February and that neither men nor munitions...