Follot, Father Francis C., Plaquemine, Louisiana, to ArchbishopJohn Mary Odin, C.M., New Orleans, Louisiana, 1861 November 21

He had hardly returned to Plaquemine when a mother came to implore him to bury her son, a soldier, dead in Arkansas of typhoid fever. The boy, 17 or 18 years old, was never baptized although the mother had sometimes spoken of it and he believes the boy desired it. He replied he could not perform the ceremony and that the child could not be buried in the Catholic cemetery. It is true that since he has been at Plaquemine a Protestant and an unbaptized child have been buried there despite him. However the feeling of the Catholic population is opposed. The body has not yet arrived. The mother, in tears, has asked him to write to Odin. :: VI-2-e A.L.S. French 2pp. 12mo.