ST. LOUIS, MO., Sunday,
Oct. 23, 1859.
Dear SIR: . .
. It is absolutely impossible for me to leave here before Thursday of this
week, the 27th, as I have some old matters of business here which I have put
off until now. I was delayed two or three days by the low water of the
Missouri. Therefore, however much I would like to be with you on the “Lizzie Simmons,” I must not
attempt it.
I will, if there be any faith in steamboats, be at Baton
Rouge, Nov. 5 and I suppose I have made a mistake in promising to see the
governor at all, instead of the committee of trustees, to whom is left the
preparation of things; still, as I have written the governor to that effect, I
must do so, but will not delay an unnecessary moment, but hurry on to
Alexandria and there meet the committee.
Knowing, as you do, the rates of travel, you can better form
a judgment when I can reach your Alexandria; and if your committee will have
progressed in their work they may go on, with a certainty that I will zealously
enter on any task they may assign me. It seems to me no time is to be lost in
preparing regulations and circulars for very wide circulation among the
planters whose sons are to be cadets.
But we will soon meet and go to work, and I begin to feel
now that we have a noble task and are bound to succeed.
SOURCE: Walter L. Fleming, Editor, General W.T.
Sherman as College President, p. 42-3
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