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Headquarters Bureau of
Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
State of Louisiana;

New Orleans, December 1st 1865

Col. Max. Woodhull,
Assistant Adjutant General
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c
Washington, D.C.

Sir,
I have the honor to transmit herewith the monthly Report of Refugees and Freedmen for the month of October.
This Report is for the month prior to my assuming direction here, and has been delayed with the hope of obtaining the necessary reports from the McHatton Home Colony, and from Shreveport. The officers in charge at both those points having been mustered out without our knowledge, and the mail facilities being very irregular, have up to this time prevented our receiving the information required, but it shall be sent to you immediately we receive it.

Very respectfully,
A. Baird
Brevet Maj. Gen'l U.S. Vols. Asst. Com'r &c.
State of Louisiana

Transcription Notes:
edited: its Max Woodhull not Woodhall, other corrections From the Smithsonian page: The Rost Colony in St. Charles Parish was by far the most successful of the four. The other three colonies, McHatton Colony near Baton Rouge, the Sparks Plantation in Jefferson Parish, and the Bragg Plantation in Lafourche Parish, never financially broke even as the Rost Colony did.