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Petersburg Va, 9 mo., 2, 1865.
Capt. Stuart Barnes

Captain,
Aside from the ordinary progress made under good, energetic tuition, the schools of your District have changed very little during the month just ended. The school at Farmville conducted by Frederic Brooks, assisted by J. W. Davis, of the Penna. Freedmen's Relief Assn, has an attendance of two hundred twenty during the day and ninety at the night session. Of the day pupils most all read Wilson's Primer. A few read the First Reader and still fewer the Second. About twenty five write in Copy Books and the same number study Mental Arithmetic. About one third of the evening pupils read the New Testament, the other two thirds are divided as are the day pupils into readers of the Primer, First and Second Readers. As much as possible, the school has adopted the "Graded System" but the teachers are too few to bring the school to that state of discipline and efficiency that is desirable, and as long as the indecision that now prevails among the parties interested in these schools exists, the corps of teachers is not likely to be enlarged.
The City Point School has grown to one hundred twenty-five pupils, most of whom are boys. The teacher reports it as doing finely and adds that as many as fifty more children ought to be in the school. The teacher Mr. Ammons of the Christian Commission has desires large enough for the well-being of the freedmen but his acquirements are unfortunately too limited for a teacher.
The Schools of Petersburg remain unchanged, except the one in the African Church building. By action of the Church it has been taken from Mr. Gloucester and he has been notified by