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DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF
United States Military Telegraph Office
10 40 pm New Orleans, Jan 4 1865

By Telegraph from B Rouge
To Lt E. M Wheelock
Secy Bd. Ed.

I consider the McHatton Plantation safe from attack  It is situated about half way from this place to the stockade where a force is constantly kept

Geo. E Smith
Capt & Pro Mar