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14 Private Greene Adams, C. Co. Private Peter Connor. A. Co. By order of Colonel Samuel Thomas Stuart Aldridge Lieut. A.A.A. General Office Assistant Commissioner Freedmen's Bureau Vicksburg Miss. Sept 1st 1865. [[left margin #1]] Lieut. Colonel R. J. Donaldson [[/left margin #1]] Special Orders No. 26 } [[left margin #2]] Lieut. James Bricourt [[/left margin #2]] The following named enlisted men of 33rd Illinois Infantry having been detached from [[left margin #3]] Corporal D. P. Langley [[/left margin #3]] their commands for special service in Freedmen's Bureau, will forthwith report to Lieut. Colonel [[left margin #4]] Corporal Ezekiel Dye [[/left margin #4]] R. J. Donaldson, Acting Assistant Commissioner, Jackson Miss. for assignment to duty. [[left margin #5]] Private J. F. McFortney [[/left margin #5]] Sergeant James Bricourt H. Co., Corporal D. P. Langley H. Co., Corporal Ezekiel Dye H. Co., Private J. F. McFortney H. Co., [[left margin #6]] Private John Sprouse [[/left margin #6]] Private John Sprouse H. Co., Private John W. Upperman H. Co. [[left margin #7]] Private John W. Upperman [[/left margin #7]] By order of Colonel Samuel Thomas Stuart Aldridge Lieut. A.A.A. General Office Assistant Commissioner Freedmen's Bureau Vicksburg Miss. Sept. 2nd 1865 Special Orders No. 27 } [[left margin #8]] Lieutenant J. F. McHarg [[/left margin #8]] Lieutenant J. F. McHarg 47th U.S.C.I. having been detached from his command for special service in Freedmen's [[left margin #9]] Lieutenant Colonel R. J. Donaldson [[/left margin #9] Bureau will forthwith report to Lieutenant Colonel R. J. Donaldson Acting Assistant Commissioner Northern District Mississippi, Jackson Miss. for assignment to duty. By order of Colonel Samuel Thomas Stuart Aldridge Lieutenant A.A.A. General 15 Office Assistant Commissioner Freedmen's Bureau Miss. Vicksburg Miss. Sept. 3rd 1865 Special Orders No. 28 } [[left margin #1]] Lieutenant R. F. Cheney [[/left margin #1]] Lieutenant R. F. Cheney, 64th U.S.C. Infantry [[left margin #2]] Captain J. H. Weber [[/left margin #2]] is hereby relieved from duty in this Bureau, and will resume his assignments without delay. He will turn over all records [[left margin #3]] C. O. 64th U.S.C.I. [[/left margin #3]] in his possession to Captain J. H. Weber Acting Assistant Commissioner Western District Mississippi. By order of Colonel Samuel Thomas Stuart Aldridge Lieutenant A.A.A. General Office Assistant Commissioner Freedmen's Bureau Miss. Vicksburg Miss. Sept. 4th 1865 Special Orders No. 29 } [[left margin #4]] Painted [[/left margin #4]] There being no provision for the education of Colored people by the State law of Mississippi, and no steps to this end having been taken by the present Provisional Government of the State, and the Colored people of Vicksburg having, in a public meeting, and by general consent, (no person dissenting as far as is known), agreed to assess upon themselves a fund for the support of schools in the city for the benefit of the children of their community, and having appointed a school committee to carry the system into effect, it is hereby ordered: I. H. R. Revels, Joseph J. Moore, G. W. Walton, A. Newton, D. Forte, P. P. Head, H. Mason and James Middleton, and their association and successors, duly appointed from time to time, shall be recognized as a school committee to aid the officer of the Freedmen's Bureau having the superintendent of schools in carrying on the work of education in the City of Vicksburg. II. That it shall be the duty of this Committee, and they are hereby authorized to assess upon the adult Colored people, resident within the sphere of the schools of this city, a fund for the maintenance of such schools from October 1st 1865 to June 30th 1866 and to appoint and superintend a collector of
