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Maredian May The 31st-1866

W-E.M. Wheelock Superintendant

of Schools JCo
Dear Sir I am required to report to you in regard to schools in my section for the Freed Blacks I regret to say there is no scholls in Bosque or Hill Counties for Freedmens children there could be several if you had teachers, or knew what sum the Bureau will pay teachers. The Freedmen here is anxious to have schools, and will pay the tuition of their children. as far as they are able, there is one settlement in this county that has some seventy Black Children, who all lives near enough to go to one school from their homes, and their parents has proposed to build a school house if you can get a teacher=good country accomidation can be had for the Teacher at Judge [Sho?] Fords. This is a choice [stand?] for a large school - a school could be started in this place with some 30 schollars and one at Kimble about the same & one at Hillsborough and Dyers Mill the Whites as a general rule are opposed to educating the Blacks. They think President Johnson will yet restore slavery. I think schools started here at this time may be permanently kept up, and nearly or quite self supporting. I have had a hard time up here among these Rebels 45 miles from any troops, and two thirds of the population as hostile as they were in 1862 to the goverment and Union Men
Philip Howard Sub Asst Com F.B.