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at Union Church taught by Gilbert E. Scott, who gives great satisfaction, and is doing well. 
 His school numbers thirty-three. On the whole the education of the children of Freedmen is making good progress in this County.
There seems to be no opposition to these schools among the white people, who, in fact, manifest but little interest in them in any way. I have now employed as teachers two young white ladies who belong to good families, viz: Miss Morris and Miss Bolling. The fact that refined and educated young ladies like these, are not afraid to engage in teaching the children of Freedman gives character to the business and disarms criticism. The moral and religious instruction of the Freedman is totally neglected by the churches and ministry, no more attention being paid to them, than if they were utterly destitute of hearts and souls. In these respects the colored people are thrown entirely upon their own resources which are extremely limited. Less attention is probably paid to this matter by the whites now, than was given to it in the "good old days of Slavery"., when