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PETERSBURG, VA., July i, 1892. 44 Mr. GEORGE S. BERNARD :

" DEAR SIR You have requested me to give you my recollec- tion of the wounding of General Longstreet in the Battle of the Wilderness. As a member of his staff I was one of his aide-de- camp, I was within a few feet of him at the time he was wounded. We were on our horses on the plank-road. A few minutes pre- viously I had suggested to him that he was exposing himself very much, I thought. That is our businees, was his reply, which silenced me. When the volley, a shot from which wounded him, was fired, he fell from his horse heavily to the ground, and I thought he had been killed. I went immediately to him and found him breathing. Drs. J. S. Dorsey Cullen and Randolph Barksdale, of his medical staff, were immediately sent for and took him to the rear. " Your comrade,

"ANDREW DUNN."

DAVIS AND JOHNSTON.

LIGHT THROWN ON A QUARREL AMONG CONFEDERATE

LEADERS.

A QUESTION OF RANK.

How Lee Came to be Put over Johnston Davis Accused of Favoritism-

What Recent Researches Made by a Member of the

Board of War Publications Regarding

the Controversy Show.

[From the Evening Star, Washington, D. C., July 16, 1892.]

The last two volumes of the Rebellion Records relating to the Atlanta campaign, five in number, are being issued by the board of publication, and in them we have the full text of many important reports and orders never before printed, as well as a good deal of correspondence more or less valuable and interesting.