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Sir although you may be posted on the subject, I will inform you that yesterday was a king of a gala day here for the School Children and the Colored People generally I could not get into the School House to hear the examination of the scholars but I was told they all acquitted themselves handsomely. The procession formed at the school house in Double file the girls directly after the Music the two furthest girls carrying between them a very large portrait of, I supposed to be Abraham Lincoln, Then the Boys all dressed very neat with blue sashes, and a large wide pink ribbon over the right shoulder, across the breast and down the left side, then the women. Oh; Beg pardon I should have said Ladies, all dressed in white, and as we would say at sea with streamers and pennants flying. Then the Gents, I took a convenient stand under a tree while in the saddle and counted four hundred and eighty seven females in the line of procession it was estimated that their was about fifteen hundred Colored people on the ground at the Soldiers Camp where the table was spread for a dinner, but a great many got disappointed for in place of it being a free thing they charged a Dollar a head for Dinner and 25 cts a Drink for water per head. Although the Day was very warm I saw but two men interacted and one of them was a white man, they had a subscription for a Ball at night and collected a good size'd hat full of the hard stuff. Everything went very peaceable and quiet,

H. B. L.