[From Major-General Fitz Lee.]
Richland, Stafford Co., Va., November 10, 1869.
Captain F. W. Dawson was my Ordnance Officer at the time he specifies. He was a brave soldier and an efficient officer.
“Survivors!” let him in.
FITZHUGH LEE,
Maj.-Gen., C. S. A.
These pages I have written at the request of my wife, Sarah Morgan Dawson, and for her dear sake. It is little enough, in the hurry of a busy life, to do for one who, year after year and so long as I have known her, has strengthened my faith by believing in me, and enlarges my hope always by her confidence and love.