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Retained Copy
Consolidated Report of County Superintendents
in the State of Tennessee for the Month of August 1866 as per Circular No. 4 current series.

Nashville Sub. District Bvt Brig. Genl. J.R. Lewis Commanding.-

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| County | Superintendent | Number of Rations | Quantity Issued Clothing | Quantity Issued Medicine | Contracts Number | Contracts Persons | Fines and Forfeitures collected Dolls | Fines and Forfeitures collected Cts | Orphans or Minors Apprenticed Number | Number Schools | Number Scholars | Number Teachers | Remarks of Superintendents |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---| --- | --- | --- | --- |

Nashville Sub District Bvt. Brig. Gen'l J.R. Lewis Commanding.

| Coffee. | Smith, Joel B. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | As a general thing the freedmen are laboring industriously, some however have abandoned their contracts it not being objected to by their Employers | 

| Davidson | Lawrence John |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | The Freedmen in this county are generally well employed and cases of violation of contracts on either side are not numerous. There are still many Freedmen in Nashville, who will find it quite difficult to maintain themselves, owing to the high rents. |

| Giles | Judd Geo E. |   |   |   |   |   |  |   |   |   |   |   | the feeling of the Citizens if the County toward the Bureau is very bitter and in fact towards everything which is for the benefit of the negroes  | 

| Humphries | Gassett. F. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | The freedmen and whites are getting along well together. | 

| Jackson | Riggs John B |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | In this part of the County where he has travelled the whites and freedmen are getting along well | 

| Montgomery | Cobb, Joshua |   |   |   | 4 | 7 |   |   |   | 4 | 275 | 4 | The state of feeling on the part of the citizens towards freedmen still continues favorable and the majority of difficulties that occur are between freedmen and white people who have never owned slaves |

| Marshall | West, Moses C. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 2 |   |   |   | The freedmen are generally performing their contracts faithfully. I hear but little complaint, and the employers are generally kind and liberal toward the freedmen. | 

| Macon | Seagraves Gilbra |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | There has been some depredation committed upon freedmen but I am waiting the operation of the civil law. | 

| Overton | Riggs John B |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | (See Jackson County) | 

| Putnam | Hester H. G. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | In August there were no outrages committed by whites upon colored people | 

| Robertson | Holman D. D. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | 40 |   | The feelings upon the part of the whites toward the col'd people are in a large majority of cases kind. The col'd people seem well reconciled and attentive to business. | 

| Wayne | Fowler J. L. |   |   |   | 15 | 15 |   |   |   | 1 |   | 1 | Feeling toward freedmen by citizens not so favorable as heretofore. |

| Williamson | Judd Capt. Geo. E. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |

| Warren | Laury, William |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 2 |   |   | The Citizens and freedmen are getting along well together. |

Memphis Sub District Bvt. Col F.S. Palmer Commanding

| Carroll | Neely Andrew |   |   |   | 1 | 3 |   |   |   |   |   |   | There is little or no disposition by Civil Officers or Civilians to present outrages committed upon the freedmen. |

| Decatur | Steagald J. J. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | There is little or no disposition by Civil Officers or Civilians to present outrages committed upon the freedmen. |

| Fayette | Melcher S. H. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Condition of affairs in the county much improved. Every thing quiet. |

| Gibson | J. W. Jones |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | All quiet. |

| Haywood | R. C. Scott  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 | 21 | 1 | All quiet. |

| Hardiman | J. D. Ussery  |   |   |   | 3 | 3 |   |   |   |   |   |   | It is a difficult matter for the freedmen to obtain justice before the civil authorities. |

| Lauderdale | W. C. McConnico  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Three outrages committed by whites upon freedmen. The civil authorities seem to take little or no interest in any thing pertaining to the colored |

| McNairy | Fielding Hurst  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 | 18 | 1 | Three outrages committed by whites upon freedmen, one arrest made. The civil authorities are generally well disposed toward the freedmen. |

| Madison | G. E. Green |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Two outrages committed by whites upon freedmen. |

| Shelby | Lt Col F.S. Palmer | 713 |   |   | 1 | 4 |   |   |   | 1 | 75 | 1 | Few outrages committed by whites upon freedmen. But few reports from the freedmen. The civil authorities in the city of Memphis are discharging their full duty in refusing [[strikethrough]] proceeding for [[/strikethrough]] [[?]] the destitute colored people |

| Tipton | J. R. Bledsoe |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Freedmen doing well |

| Weakley | H. G. Hester |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Bureau affairs quiet nothing to complain of - all well - Civil authorities deal with all alike. |

| Obion | W. H. White |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Three outrages committed by whites upon the blacks. |

Chattanooga Sub - District Bvt. Brig Genl F.E. Trotter Commanding.

|   | Trotter Bvt. Brig. Gen'l |   |   |   | 2 | 42 |   |   |   | 1 | Summer | Vacation. | There is but little change in feeling since my last report - cases of outrages few - the freedmen are generally sustained in their legal rights. |  

|   |   |   |   |   | 26 | 74 |   |   | 3 |   |   |   |   |

J.R. Lewis
Bvt. Brig General U.S. Vol
Assistant Commissioner

Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
State of Tennessee
Assistant Commissioners Office
Nashville Tenn Sept. 22 1866.