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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