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Lauderdale Mississippi  One school One Teacher and Sixty scholars 
Enterprise Mississippi One Teacher (col'd) One school and 43 scholars. 
The schools still continue to increase in interest. And bid fair to be an entire entire success. 

The Hospital Department is now in charge of Dr.[[Milne?]] — who will produce a change for the better. Yet it seems almost impossible to make the necessary arrangements - to repair the buildings properly — We have endeavored to procure Gov Lumber at this Post. Also Transportation to bring lumber from buildings at Gainesville Junction but have failed. I have made arrangements to purchase Lumber near the City at $3.00 @ hundred. It seems like an enormous price, but it is necessary in order to prepare buildings to accommodate the sick that will pass through Meridian on their way to the springs. Some six cases of Small pox are now in City — It is confined alone to the freedmen —