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much needed if teachers could be procured. There is some disposition among the whites to aid in establishing schools for Freedmen partly induced by the fact that a large number have minors bound to them under the statute which requires them to be taught reading, writing &c" Very respectfully Your obt servt (signed) Wm P Austin Capt VRC and Sub Asst Comr Respectfuly furnished Chaplain R.M. Manly, Supt of Education for his information Garrick Mallery Capt 43d Infty AAAGl Richmond Va 7th May 1867