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Consolidated Reports of County Superintendents. Nashville Sub District for September 1866. as called for by Circular No 4. C.S. [[14 columned table]] | County | Superintendents | No of Rations | Quantity issued Clothing | Quantity issued Medicines | Numbers Contracts | Numbers Persons | Fines and Forfeitures dolls | Fines and Forfeitures cts | No. Orphans and Minors apprenticed | Numbers Schools | Numbers Scholars | Numbers Teachers | Remarks of Superintendents. | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bedford | Ramsey Joseph | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | Chatham | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent. | | Cannon | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent. | | Coffee | Smith Joel B. | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | "The freedmen are laboring industriously & there is little or no vagrancy, the result of which is they are getting good wages, first class laborers are getting 30 dollars per month and rations." | | Dickson | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent. | | Davidson | Laurence John | 1763 | | | | | | | | | | | "No outrages of a noticeable character have occurred during the month and all cases requiring the attention of the civil courts have been adjudicated so far as known in a spirit of impartiality" | | DeKalb | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | Franklin | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | Fenton | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent. | | Giles | Judd Capt Geo E. | | | | | | | | | | | | "There has been a marked improvement in this county during the past month. The people are doing better by the negroes than they used when I first came here. The magistrate seems to take hold and do their duty consequently there is not half as much trouble throughout the county as what has been heretofore" | | Grundy | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent. | | Humphries | Gossett A. | | | | | | | | | | | | "The colored people are doing well and that there was no disturbance among them last month in my county and all are getting along very well working finely". | | Hickman | Puckett J. N. | | | | | | | | | | | | "The freedmen in my county are doing very well and are conducting themselves remarkably well. The prejudice heretofore existing on the part of the whites but still a great prejudice still exists in regard to col'd is slowly giving way" | | Jackson | Riggs Jno B. | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | James | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent. | | Laurence | | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent. | | Lincoln | Beardon Alfred | | | | | | | | | | | | "The freed persons are behaving themselves very well. The employers are also with a few exceptions from what I can learn disposed to deal fairly with them." | | Montgomery | Cobb Joshua | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | 4 | 275 | 4 | "The state of feeling on the part of citizens toward freedmen favorable" | | Maury | Gregory Jas H | | | | | | | | | | | | "The freedmen are industrious and faithful to their contracts" | | Marshall | West Moses C. | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | | | | "There has been no complaint of personal abuse in the past month. I fear that many of the employers may defraud the freedmen by taking advantage of their ignorance" | | Macon | Seagraves Gilbra | | | | | | | | | | | | "There has been no business done in this office this month" | | Overton | Riggs Jno B. | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | Perry | Taylor Jesse | | | | | | | | | | | | "The freedmen in this county are doing well in every aspect." | | Putnam | Hunter B. D. | | | | | | | | | | | | Reports abuse of a col'd woman | | Robertson | Holman D. D. | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | | | 30 | | Reports that armed men from Ky are murdering Union Soldiers Two of the leaders are Martin and Colly | | Rutherford | Tracy Capt J. M. | | | | | | | | | | | | The freedmen are all employed at this time in picking cotton at good wages but few if any idle. | | Smith | Goodwin W. H. | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | Stewart | Stewart Geo W. | | | | | | | | | | | | "State of feeling good" | | Sumner | Trimble Thos C | | | | 2 | 2 | | | | | | | "The freedmen as a general thing are doing their whole duty" | | Wayne | Fowler J. L. | None | None | None | 8 | 9 | None | None | None | None | None | None | "Feeling of citizens toward the Freedmen and the Bureau some prejudices existing throughout the County" | | Williamson | Judd Capt Geo E. | | | | | | | | | | | | See Giles County. | | Warren | Loury William | | | | | | | | | | | | "The freedmen are doing very well and are generally very well satisfied" | | White | Simpson Rev Rich'd | | | | | | | | | | | | "There is quite a prejudice against the colored people here and I do not think that any colored person can have a fair Trial against a white person in our courts". | | Wilson | Goodwin W. H. | | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received. | | | Total | 1763 | | | 10 | 6 | | | | | 305 | 4 | | Mich'l Walsh Captain V.R.C. and Chief Superintendent Nashville Sub District Bureau R.F. and A. Lands.
