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Office S.A.C. B.R.F &c
Camp Verde, June 20. 1868.

Lieut, Chas. A Vernon.
A.A.A. Genl

There is a great desire on the part of the freedmen to have School established, but it is almost impracticable on account of the distances which in [[?]] between the homes of these people The county is so thinly settled that, persons attending any established schools 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 a few of the freedmen to establish a School in these counties by defraying the expenses themselves, but the project was abandoned for want of support and the probability of non attendance of the scholars

Very Resp &c
(Signed) William W. Clemens
Bt Capt 35 Inf
S.A.C.