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efforts to promote the education of colored children in Marshall has been rather cramped by the interference, in an indirect manner of outside parties, and the teachers are wofully deficient, yet after exhausting every effort I have failed to get a decent boarding place for a good teacher and consequently have refrained from asking for one.  I am working hard now to establish a good school in Jefferson, and think I shall succeed, so far I have heard no feeling expressed against it.  In Jefferson they must be assisted to enable them to have benches and desks, and a good teacher sent on.

I am Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
(Signed) H. Sweeney
1st Lieut: 15th U.S. Inft'y
Sub. Asst. Coms'r.