Scope and Contents Responding to his father's account of the "Extortioners of Mt. Pleasant," Barrier writes: "The man who shelters himself behind a tanyard or elsewhere when his country needs his service is most assuredly unworthy of the name of a Confederate citizen and is devoid of patriotism. And whoever extorts upon a poor soldier or a soldier's family when he is exposed to the dangers of a cruel war in the defense of Liberty, and in the protection of his home, should be branded as an enemy to his country...