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Baton Rouge, Jan 24th 1865
Lieut E. M. Wheelock:
Dear Sir,
In reply to yours of Jan. requesting me to visit Mrs. Harris' school and ascertain her success in teaching; I would say I have made the visit and although I am not fully satisfied with her as a teacher and do not regard hers as a model school, yet I think her department is managed as well as Mr. Rogers, and so far as teaching is concerned, I see no more reason for her removal than for his. Rogers boasts considerably of the excellence of his school, but many feel it is nothing more than common, and as his numbers do not increase quite as much as he wishes, perhaps he is inclined to censure her, when he is as much at fault. But it does rather stir my feelings to see a woman employed as a W. S. Govt. teacher, whose husband holds an important position in the Rebel Army, as hers does.
My assistant Miss Fannie Hendrick is anxious to return home, and I am willing she should. She never manifested a very lively interest in her work, and seems to have lost the interest she did have. I think she was never fond of teaching, and is now quite tired of it.
Chaplain Honey of the 4th Wis. Cav. speaks very highly of a Miss Austin who has been laboring with great success at Cairo, but is now relieved