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Meridian Texas
April 1st, 1866

General Gregory

Dear Sir:

If you could send some 2 or 3 teachers up here I can have three schools started in a month. I have one house being built at J.J. Smiths Plantation free of cost to the Government. The freedmen are building it themselves. This school will have some fifty pupils to start with.

Good board can be had at Judge & Fords for Teacher.

I could employ a good teacher for this school at $1200 per year if it is desirable a white man. I can start two other schools.- One at Kimbleville and the other at this place.
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