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St. Louis Oct 24th 1866
A.W. Preston Act'g Ass't Adj't Gen'l
Sir
I have just received a circular from Major Reyan [[?]] and cheerfully give you something like a report. I opened school on Woods Plantation on May 7th 1866 and during the four months I taught until vacation. I had enrolled 120. The increase was such that in a few weeks I needed an assistant and my cousin Adeline Siseve [[?]] taught with me.

Sircumstances over which we had no control connected with field labor necessarily made our attendance irregular as regards our  older schollars, connsequently we cannot give you any average. We received non we thought ender six years and the older ones seemed to know so little abut their age that we gave that up. I judge however there were more