_Lt.-Col., Chief Ordnance Officer Army Northern Virginia_.
LETTER OF COLONEL MANNING, CHIEF ORDNANCE OFFICER 1ST CORPS ARMY
NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
RICHMOND, VA., April 19th, 1865.
DEAR CAPTAIN--The recent reverses to our armies, and your wound,
have for a time relieved you from command. I trust by the time
your health is restored that some arrangement may be made to
effect your exchange, and allow you to again enter the field, and
our country to have the services of an officer who has by his
faithfulness, activity, and courage, added no little to the cause
which he has adopted; and won for himself a name which will long
be respected and admired where honor and courage are recognized.
Believe me, very truly,