The other professors had a mess in a room adjoining the mess-hall.

A few more cadets joined in the course of the winter, so that we had in all, during the first term, seventy-three cadets, of whom fifty-nine passed the examination on the 30th of July, 1860.

During our first term many defects in the original act of the Legislature were demonstrated, and, by the advice of the Board of Supervisors, I went down to Baton Rouge during the session of the Legislature, to advocate and urge the passage of a new bill, putting the institution on a better footing.

Thomas O.Moors was then Governor, Bragg was a member of the Board of Public Works, and Richard Taylor was a Senator.

I got well acquainted with all of these, and with some of the leading men of the State, and was always treated with the greatest courtesy and kindness.