Viewing page 16 of 324

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Jan. 12" 1867.

Bvt. Maj. Gen. Th. J. Wood,
Asst. Com. Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Vicksburg, Miss.

General,
Yours to Gen. Howard, asking for Teachers, came duly, but its answer has been delayed by the absence of the Commissioner on his Southern tour. He now directs me to express to you his pleasure that the planters are pressing for Teachers, and to say that he will aid you all in his power. But as there are no Bureau funds for their employment he is obliged to make your requests known to the benevolent Associations, on whom the selection and payment of Teachers wholly depends. I have therefore sent a copy of your letter to the Secretaries of the Am. Miss. Association, whose schools and teachers we think very highly of, asking that they will at once correspond with you upon the subject.

Hoping you may obtain promptly from these gentlemen such supplies of teachers as you may from