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R9

Office S.A.C. BR &c

Camp Verde, July 31. 1868.

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

There is a great desire on the part of the freedmen to have schools established but it is almost impracticable on account of the distance which intervenes between the homes of these people. The country is so thinly settled that persons attending any established 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 that some efforts were made by a few of the Freedmen to establish a school in their county by defraying the expenses themselves but the project was abandoned for want of support & the probability of non-attendance of the scholars.

Very Respt
(Signed) William W Dlemens
S.A.C.