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Consolidated Report of County Superintendents. State of Tennessee, for the Month of September 1866. as pr. Circular 4. C.S. [[13 columned table]] | County | Superintendent | Number of Rations | Quantity Issued Clothing | Quantity Issued Medicine | Contracts Number | Contracts Persons | Fines and Forfeitures Collected | Orphans and Minors apprentices | Number Scholars | Number Teachers | Remarks of Superintendents | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---| --- | --- | --- | | | | | Nashville Sub-District Capt. Michael Walsh, Chf Superintendent | | | | | | | | | | Coffee | Smith Joel B. | | | | | | | | | | | The Freedmen laboring industriously, there is little or no vagrancy, the results of which is they are getting good wages | | 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" | | 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. | | 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 is slowly giving way. | | 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 | | | | | | | | 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. | | | | | | | | | | | "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" | | Perry | Taylor Jesse | | | | | | | | | | | The freedmen in this county are doing well in every aspect. | | Putnam | Hunter B. D. | | | | | | | | | | | Reports abuse of colored woman | | Robertson | Holman D. D. | | | | | | | | | 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. I think there are but few if any idle. | | Stewart | Stewart Geo W. | | | | | | | | | | | "State of feeling good" | | Sumner | Trimble, Thos. C. | | | | 2 | 2 | | | | | | "The freedmen as a general thing are doing the work duty." | | Wayne | Fowler J. L. | | | | 8 | 9 | | | | | | "Some prejudice existing throughout the county." | | Williamson | Judd Capt. Geo. E | | | | | | | | | | | See Giles County | | Warren | Young 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". | [[note]] Full report of Schools in Monthly School report [[/note]] Memphis Sub-District Lieut Col. Fred. S. Palmer chief Superintendents | Shelby | Lt. Col. F. S. Palmer | 600 | | | | | | | | | | "No. of deaths among the freedmen during the month of Sept. is from cholera 45" - this disease in total 50". The epidemic has almost entirely disappeared." | | Fayette | Holloway J.J. | | | | | | | | | | | "There still appears to be peace and harmony between the whites and the colored." | | Weakly | Hester H.G. | | | | | | | | | | | All getting on well. No complaints on the part of either freedmen or whites. | | Madison | Green G.E. | | | | 1 | 2 | | | | | | "Employers do not seem disposed to settle with the freedmen, according to their contracts." | | Hardiman | Ussury J.D. | | | | 1 | 6 | | | | | | "All freedmen are doing very well." | | Haywood | Scott R.C. | | | | | | | | 1 | 60 | 1 | "Cases of assault & battery upon freedmen when reported to the Civil Authorities are generally disposed of as between whites, under similar circumstances." | | Lauderdale | McConnico W.C. | | | | | | | | | | | "Civil Authorities will not have anything to do with settling difficulties bet whites & blacks." | | Henderson | Howard S. | | | | | | | | | | | "The Civil Authorities seem disposed to take cognisance of the right of the freed people." | | Hardin | Maxwell, Tho's | | | | | | | | | | | "The Civil Authorities do not show any disposition to do justice to the freedmen in any case whatever." | | Decatur | Steagard J.J. | | | | | | | | 1 | 35 | 1 | "All getting along quiet & well." | Chattanooga Sub District - Bvt Brig Genl F.E. Trotter, Chief Superintendent. | Chattanooga Sub. District. | Bvt Brig Genl F E Trotter | | | | 6 | 47 | | | 5 | 485 | 8 | "There has been no material change of feeling upon the part of citizens towards the Bureau since my last Report." | | | Total | 2363 | | | 18 | 66 | | | 11 | 885 | 14 | | [[note]] Retain [[/note]] Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands State of Tennessee, Assistant Commissioner's Office J.R. Lewis Bvt Brig Genl. Asst. Com'r Tenn. Nashville Tenn. October 29th 1866
