Scope and Contents Barrier's regiment left Hanover Junction on 29 May for Culpeper County (to prepare for the march northward into Pennsylvania). On 9 June he and the regiment were involved in a large-scale cavalry engagment at Brandy Station, when Union troopers crossed the Rappahannock and attacked. Fighting continued throughout the day; Barrier reports that his regiment acquitted itself well, though they did suffer some casualties, including the captain of Co. F, who was shot in the mouth. "Our company...