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Plaquemine. Feb 28th. 1865

Lieut. E. M. Wheelock.

Sir.

Miss Whipple, Miss Watson, and myself, received our reports of Feb 10th for correction, this day. The error was not in the figures but in our understanding the design of the blanks. Or the lady in your office explained to me that the first six lines of the blank were designed for a copy of the last weeks report. 

That leaving us no place for the gain and loss of the present week we reported them in the letter on the opposite side and keeping them over introduced them in their proper place on the next weeks report. This not seeming to us exactly as it should be I made inquiry of Lieut Collon when here and as