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The next letter is from Colonel Charles Marsha11, of General Lee's staff, who has charge of all the papers left by General Lee. It is as follows:

Then a letter from General A. L. Long, who was General Lee's military secretary:

I add the letter of Colonel Venable, of General Lee's staff, which should of itself be conclusive. I merely premise it with the statement that it was fully 9 o'clock before General Lee returned from his reconnoissance of Ewell's lines: