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Washington D.C. Feb 7th 1868
General Howard
Sir it is requested by Colored Ladies and friends at Charlotte Court House Virginia to send them a teacher the Rebels have refused to teach colored children saying it will make too small of them to teach Negroes they teached them a little last year and charged them $2.00 per month there are 200 hundred children around the court house and have all gone through their small books and are just at the point of Education Mrs Siny Smith says there are no