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Office, S.a.C. B.R. &c
Camp Verde, May 31, 1868

Lieut Chas. A. Vernon
A.A.A.G.

There is a great desire on the part of the freedpeople to have schools established, but it is almost impracticable on account of the distance that intervened between the homes of these people. The County is so thinly peopled that persons attending my school at a given point, would have to travel many miles to do so and the probability is that the attendance would be very slim. I have been informed that some efforts were made by some of the freedmen to establish a school in this County bby defraying the expenses themselves, but the project was abandoned for want of support, and the probability of the non-attendance of the Scholars.

Very Resp. &c
(Signed) W.W. Clemons
Bt Capt. & S.a.C.