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In Nottoway County the following places are destitute of schools and are very much needed. "Blacks & Whites" site for a School can be

Nottoway C. House ground can be purchased for $25 and the number of scholars who would attend between the ages of 6 and 21 years are fully 100.
In Lunenburg County no assistance or encouragement may be expected from the Citizens, the majority of whom are opposed to Freedmen & Schools. But the Freedmen would willingly support such schools if once established.
In Nottoway County the Citizens would countenance and encourage the establishment of Freedmens Schools, and the Freedmen would do in all in their power to support them.

I am Major,
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant

D. J. Connolly,
Brvt Capt. U.S.V.
Asst Supidt.