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the Bureau I have succeeded in establishing several select schools but owing to the prejudice still existing it is very difficult to employ competent teachers in colored schools. We have a flourishing associations known as Lincolns Temperance Lodge of one hundred and eighty members (180). I have in store at this time 954 sacks of corn. The Hospital Bureau R.F. & A.L. at this place provides for four (4) Refugees one man and three women and sixty one Freedmen thirteen men thirty one women and sixteen children I Am Col Very Respectfully Your Obt Servant JF McGogy Sub Asst Commr