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Will send a Teacher as soon as possible.

Company F. 13th US Colored Infantry
Exchange Barraks
Nashville Tenn October 8th 1865

Sir
I have the honor to call your attention To the neccesity of having a school for The benefit of our regiment. We have never Had an institution of that sort and we Stand deeply in need of instruction the majority of us having been slaves. We Wish to  have some benefit of education To make of ourselves capable of business In the future. We have established a literary Association Which flourished previous to our March to Nashville. We wish to become a People capable of self support so we are Capable of being soldiers.  My home is in Kentucky Where Prejudice reigns like the Mountain Oak and I do lack that cultivation of mind that would have an attendency To cast a cloud over my future life after have been in the united states service. I had a leave of abscence a few weeks a go on a furlough and it made my heart ache to see my race  of people there neglected And ill treated on the account of the lack of Education being incapable  of  putting Their Complaints or applications in writing for the want of Education totally ignorant of the Great Good Workings of the Government in our behalf. We as soldiers Have our officers Who are our protection To teach us how to act and to do