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[[strikethrough]] CHARLESTON BRANCH National Freedmen's Savings and Trust Company, No. 74 BROAD Street Charleston [[/strikethrough]] Columbia, S.C., Jan 7th 1870 To Maj. Genl. O.O. Howard Dear General I need not report in detail the School in Columbia as you were an eyewitness to their condition. [[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] The absence of advanced and older pupils, is said to be from the fact that young col'd men here, who were boys during the war, grew up especially vicious & are now therefore comparatively indifferent to an education. From the younger class we are undoubtedly to expect the largest results in all parts of the [[strikethrough]] State [[/strikethrough]] South, as well as in this city. These colored schools are the only
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