PETERSBURG, April 26th, 1865.
To Captain F. W. DAWSON,
_Chief Ordnance Officer Fitz Lee’s Cavalry Division_:
I hereby certify that Captain Francis W. Dawson, C. S. Ordnance,
was regularly commissioned, and at the time of the surrender of
the Army of Northern Virginia was on my staff as Chief Ordnance
Officer of the Cavalry Corps.
FITZ LEE, _Major-General_.