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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, Office Asst Sub = Asst Com'r, 4th Div 11th Sub Dist. Va Warsaw, Richmond Co Virginia Nov. 12th 1867. Bvt Brig Genl O. Brown, Asst Coming State of VA Richmond VA General: I have the honor to forward the enclosed application of the colored people residing in the vacinity of "Menoken", who ask for a teacher they have a very good school=house and are worthy of a teacher. Although there are now some 13 school houses ready for teachers there are no teachers as yet sent; nor has there even been one cent of money contributed toward schools in my division or even a teacher sent. The whites are persuading the colored that the promised schools need teachers is all a humbug. That such lengths will only talked about an a blind, for a certain purposes. I earnestly urge that these schools be supplied with teachers, no matter what their color is or education, provided, they can spell, write (over)