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Letter. Rufus A. Barrier, Gaines' Mill, Virginia, to Mathias Barrier, Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina

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Barrier writes a brief note from a field hospital on the regiment's involvement at the battle of Cold Harbor. They are stationed near Gaines' Mill, Virginia, he says, and have been fighting for two days. Lt. Col. John Murchison is dead. (Murchison was commanding the regiment in the absence of Col. Whitson, who was captured while on leave and did not return during the war). "The regiment is badly cut up. I will not attempt to give you an account of the killed, wounded, and missing." Barrier "was compelled to leave the field yesterday 12 o'clock on account of being sick." He is "too nervous" to continue writing.

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