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from that indicated by his orders.
He, therefore, wrote me that if I had “found anything better than reinforcing Jackson, to pursue it.”
I mention this incident simply to show the official relations that existed between General Lee and myself.
As to our personal relations I present two letters throwing light upon that subject.
One is from Colonel W. H. Taylor, Assistant Adjutant General, and the other is from General Lee himself:
There is one point to which I call especial attention.
The friends of Colonel J. B. Walton, Chief of Artillery of the First Corps, think that in my first an inferential injustice was done to that gentleman.
Colonel Walton was an officer of great worth, and at all times had the confidence of his commanding officers, and it is with pleasure that I correct what certainly was an unintentional derogation of his quality.
It is true that in part of my first narrative there were sentences subject to the erroneous impression that Colonel Walton was not in full command of the artillery of the First Corps at the battle of Gettysburg.
My orders, however, as well as my instructions,
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