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Office Sub Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Columbus Tex. Oct. 22nd 1866.

Bvt. Lieut. Col. Henry A. Ellis.
A.A.A.G. Bur. R.F. & A.L.
Galveston Tex. 

Sir:
I have the honor to state that much dissatisfaction exists in this place in regard to the Freedman's School as it now stands & would respectfully ask of the Major General Assistant Commissioner that the Superintendent of Schools be directed to visit it empowered to make any or such changes that he might on examination find nescessary.

I am Colonel 
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Serv't
Enon M. Harris
Sub Asst. Comr. Bur. R. F. & A.L.