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Office Asst. Supt. B. R. F & A. L.
King Wm C. H. King WM. Co Va:
September 25th 1866

Bvt: Brig: Genl. S C. Armstrong
Supt. 5th District Va:
Fort Monroe Va:

General.
I have the honor to make the following report in compliance with Cir: No 23 Hd Qrs Asst Comr State of VA: dated July the 18th 1866. Upon inquiry made throughout the county I find that it will be impossible to establish any schools at present without detriment to the Freedmen. In the first place, most of the children that are large enough to attend school are obliged to work for their support, which they can barely do.  The citizens are anxious to have the freedmen educated, but they have been so reduced, pecuniaryly, by the late war, that many of them cannot afford to send their own children to school therefore it is impossible for them to assist the freedmen just now. The crops in this county are not at all promising this season, and it will be necessary for the freedmen young and old, to work hard during the coming