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This report would have been submitted at a much earlier period had it not been for the difficulties incident to an active campaign in getting sub-reports and my own illness. I am, very respectfully,

your obedient servant,

A. L. LONG,

Brigadier- General Chief of Artillery. The Adjutant-General,

Lieutenant- General Ewell's command, Richmond, Fa.

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 per- son in General Ewell's presence.

[Signed] CAMPBELL BROWN.

This endorsement is not dated, but from the handwriting and the ink used I take it to have been made about 1865, before the evacua- tion of Richmond. The fact is as clear in my memory to-day as ever. The order was given at the Harris House shortly before sun- set of the nth. The above is a true copy.

CAMPBELL BROWN.

May 6th, 1874.

Evacuation of Richmond. REPORT OF GENERAL R. S. EWELL.

SPRING HILL, TENN., December zoth, 1865.

General R. E. LEE, Lexington, Fa. :

GENERAL, About the middle of February last I received a communication from you, enclosing a law which I was directed to carry out. This law required preparations to be made for destroy- ing the cotton, tobacco, &c., which the owners could not remove, in places exposed to capture by the enemy. I immediately sent Major