Endorsement on the above report.
By General Ewell's direction, I wrote to General Long immediately upon receipt of this, asking him to specify from whom came the orders for withdrawal of his guns from General Ed. Johnson's lines.
No answer ever received.
Wrote a second time with same result.
I heard General R. E. Lee give the order to General Long in person in General Ewell's presence.
[Signed]
This endorsement is not dated, but from the handwriting and the ink used I take it to have been made about 1865, before the evacuation of Richmond.
The fact is as clear in my memory to-day as ever.
The order was given at the Harris House shortly before sunset of the 11th.
The above is a true copy.
Campbell Brown. May 6th, 1874.
