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Office Bureau R. F. & A. Lands
2nd Division 8th Sub District Va.
Abingdon Va. December 31st 1867
Bvt Brig Genl. O. Brown
Assistant Commissioner State of Va.
Richmond Va.
Sir
I have the honor to report that there is one day School & three Sunday Schools in my Division the day School is located in Abingdon and is under the Supervision of an excellent teacher with two assistants all of whom are Supported by a Northern Freedmen's Aid Society the day School numbers about eighty pupils resulting in much good towards the education of the younger Freed Children

The Sunday Schools are located as follows. one at Abingdon one at Saltville and one at Bristol Washington County Va. the Sunday School at Abingdon is much the largest having an attendance of about Sixty children the one at Bristol about forty and the one at Saltville not more than twenty to twenty five
These Schools would have a much larger attendance but for the inability of the children's parents many of them to provide their children with common comfortable clothing

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