Executive Office, Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 5,1859.
SIR: I have the pleasure to inform you that at a meeting of
the Board of Supervisors of the Seminary of Learning, held at Alexandria on the
1st of August, you were elected to fill the chair of professor of engineering,
architecture, drawing, etc., and as superintendent of the institution.
You will please inform me at what time, between this and the
first of December, it will be convenient for you to meet a committee of the
Board of Supervisors, to make necessary arrangements for the organization of
the institution.
SOURCE: Walter L. Flemming, Editor, General W.T.
Sherman as College President, p. 29
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