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Office S.A.C. B.R.F. &c
Sterling Oct 31 1867

Lt J. P. Richardson
A.A.A.G.

No steps are being taken the present time to advance the cause of education among the freedmen. Every man, woman & child capable of picking cotton has been brought into the cotton fields to secure the present crop before it is blown from the stocks by the "Northers" and still more help is wanted. 

I do not think it advisable to reopen the freedmen's schools which were in operation until the commencement of the new year

In some localities the Freedmen evinced considerable interest in the cause of education, but upon the whole they care very little about it. The freedmen in this Sub-Dist. are deplorably ignorant, and it is very difficult to impress on their minds the necessity of educating their children.

Very Respy &c.
(Signed) J. L. Randall
S.A.C. 

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