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"place - and if things look favorably, [[on?]] to Yorktown.  

I'll go up the Peninsula and take a look.—

Yours Very Truly 
(Sgd) J.C. Armstrong"

Depending upon this partial promise for Williamsburg (Magruder) as the best I could do, I arranged with a reliable gentleman in Yorktown — a public official — to put into the school there, as a temporary supply, a colored man [[aiding?]] that, engaging that I would be personally responsible for his pay, until something better could be done.

To show the difficulty of keeping up all these schools I beg the attention of the Commissioner and the Genl. Supt. to the following Statistics:

The Amer: Miss: Ass'n, perhaps the strongest and most reliable of all the Charitable Assciations, has had, as its special field of operations in Virginia, the lower Peninsula, Norfolk and the Eastern Shore. On this field they had

In November 1866, — 33 Teachers and 2099 Pupils
In November 1867, — 32 Teachers and 1827 Pupils
In November 1868, — 24 Teachers and 1164 Pupils
In November 1869 — 19 Teachers and 431 Pupils