Scope and Contents Barrier recounts "the grandest raid of the war," the Gettysburg campaign. Though suffering from "a pretty sore head from a sabre cut," he is still "in the land of the living" and doing well. Within a few days of the battle of Brandy Station the regiment had decamped, crossed the Rappahannock River, and marched toward Warrenton, where they remained for two days. While there they had a brief encounter with enemy scouts. They marched to New Baltimore, Virginia and then to Upperville, where, on...