Thursday, April 12, 2018

Governor Robert C. Wickliffe to William T. Sherman, August 5, 1859

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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