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Verbally | In March 1867 the Rev. Mr Welch reports a small school taught by Mr. Gregory, a colored teacher, at Richmond, Texas, commencing in Feb. 1867.

Returned to S.F.S. | Under date Navasota Texas Mar, 1867, Mr Jeremiah Reinhard writes that he is teaching a school for Freedmen, with an attendance of fifty children - Mr R. is a Colored preacher.
                  
| Under date Houston Texas Mar 16th 1867, Mr M. O. Regan states he is teaching school.

Lt Kirkman Private Letter. S.F.S. | April 1st Archibald Coutts is reported teaching a Night-School at Clear Creek, Galveston Co. Texas.

Report filed. | Under date March 26th 1867, A. H. Mayer Sub Asst Comm at Liberty, reports a school in Liberty, under the supervision of Mr.Young and wife: the school was established a month ago, and is prosperous. Thirty-one scholars Day and thirteen Night School. 

| In School Record - for March 1867. Miss Campbell reports a Sabbath School, employing twelve colored Teachers, with an attendance of one hundred scholars. 

Report filed | Edward Collins, Capt. and S.A.C. at Brenham under date Apr 1st 1867, reports a colored Sunday School, with large attendance, a hundred at least: very irregular attendance of Teachers and Scholars. Also a Day School in the suburbs of Brenham, with an attendance of thirty scholars. 

| In School Report for March 1867. Jeremiah Hamilton reports two schools in Bastrop, for the Freedmen, taught by white teachers.

| Rev Mr.Campbell, colored preacher, opened Night School in March, 1867 with an attendance of about thirty scholars: Galveston Texas. 

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See L. R. (D1) | Under date Huntsville, Nov 20th 1866, J. C. Devine, Sub Asst Comm, states that [[strikethrough]] a white lady [[strikethrough]] Mrs Tanner is teaching a Colored School of about [[strikethrough]] twenty [[strikethrough]] thirty one scholars; also two Sunday Schools are taught in that place, averaging thirty five scholars every Sunday. 

See L. R. (D1) | Under date Austin, Nov 22, 1866, Capt Byron Porter, Sub Asst Commr, states that Mr E.B. Reynolds has been teaching a School of fifteen pupils in Caldwell Co.

See Journal Dec 3d 1866 | On Dec 3rd 1866, Mr Richard Sloan gives verbal information of a Sunday School taught by three Colored persons in Matagorda, with an attendance of thirty six adults and fifty six children.

See School Report for November Millican | Under date Nov 30th 1866, Miss Mary Smith states that the two schools for colored children, taught in Millican by Mrs McFadden and Miss O. Carr, with an aggregate attendance of fourteen scholars, are discontinued. 

See Journal Dec 14th 1866 | On Dec 14th Mr D.T. Stevens Wharton, Texas, gives verbal information of a free school taught by his wife, on his plantation, numbering twenty scholars.

See L. R. (C3) | Under date Dec 3 1866 Capt A.B. Coggshall, S.A.C at Bastrop mentions colored school taught by a Freedman in that place. 

In June '66 Capt S. Sloan S.A.C gives verbal information of a colored school taught at Richmond with an attendance of about thirty five scholars. School afterwards visited by Mr E.M. Wheelock Supt Freedmens Schools, Texas

See L.R. (W.4) | Under date Dec 31st /66, Mr N. Whiting, Teacher in San Antonio, reports Nace Duval as teaching a school for Freedmen in that place - attendance small.

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