LETTER OF COLONEL MANNING, CHIEF ORDNANCE OFFICER 1ST CORPS ARMY NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Va., April 19th, 1865.
Dear Captain—The recent reverses to our armies, and your wound, have for a time relieved you from command. I trust by the time your health is restored that some arrangement may be made to effect your exchange, and allow you to again enter the field, and our country to have the services of an officer who has by his faithfulness, activity, and courage, added no little to the cause which he has adopted; and won for himself a name which will long be respected and admired where honor and courage are recognized.
Believe me, very truly,
PEYTON L. MANNING,
Lt.-Col., Chief Ordnance Officer 1st Corps
Army of Northern Virginia.
CERTIFICATE OF GENERAL FITZ LEE.
Petersburg, April 26th, 1865.
To Captain F. W. Dawson,
Chief Ordnance Officer Fitz Lee’s Cavalry Division:
I hereby certify that Captain Francis W. Dawson, C. S. Ordnance, was regularly commissioned, and at the time of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia was on my staff as Chief Ordnance Officer of the Cavalry Corps.
FITZ LEE, Major-General.