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Office Supt 8th Dist
Bureau of Refugees &c
Wytheville Va Sept 12th 1865

Colonel
I have the honor to report in regard to a movement towards establishing a school for colored children in this place. A number of colored persons resident of this place have expressed a wish to establish a school and I have furnished them a room for school room and consulted with the authorities at Lynchburg concerning the method of establishing the school in that place.  How can they be supplied with books, teachers, fuel &c?  Can not a school also be established for poor white children? The poor whites are equally ignorant and equally destitute of means to procure an education and are desirous of obtaining assistance on the basis of a free school.

I am very respectfully
Your Obt Servant
[[?]] C. Carter,
Capt & Supt 8th Dist
Bureau of Refugees &c

Col O Brown
Asst Comm'r
Richmond Va