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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.
Headquarters Seventh Sub-District of Virginia

Lynchburg, Va., Sept 5th 1868

General

By to days mails I forward you papers relative to Bureau Schools here and trust the proposed change will meet with your approval. So inconvenient is the present school house, and so many difficulties originate from its proximity to the troops that I certainly deem it best to remove the place of teaching. I shall make it obligatory upon the Church to provide quarters for the teachers and will endeavor in every manner to protect the Bureau and school interests involved - The Church is in a beautiful location, and will I think secure larger and prompter attendance upon part of pupils. The Church is deeply in debt and this recommendation will assist them materially You are perhaps not aware that the School Barrack was given this Congregation by Genl Curtis in 1865 and I refused to allow them to take it away. I have felt under

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