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Board of Education 
March 2d 1865

Lt Wheelock, 

I proceeded according to orders to Raceland Sta. to establish a school there. On a Mr Sebachie's plantation there is a large sugar warehouse which could be made quite a comfortable school house for about $30 00 expense. Mr Sebachie promises to fix up for the quarters for a teacher to live in; & says that he would be willing to board the teacher himself but that he is a bachelor and it would not be proper to do so. He also states that he was only five or six children on his place, but, from all accounts, at least 150 schoolable children could be gathered from his and the adjacent plantations. The bayou Lafourche is very thickly settled, but there are no schools on the bayou lower down than the Crossing. 

I would advise that an agent be sent out to Lafourche [[strikethrough]] Bayou [[/strikethrough]] Crossing with orders to proceed down the Bayou and establish schools on