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Consolidated Report of County Superintendents Nashville Sub District for October 1866. as called for by Circular No. 4. C.S.

[[13 Columned Table]]
| County | Superintendent | No. Rations | Quantity issued Clothing | Quantity issued Medicine | Numbers Contracts | Numbers Persons | Fines and Forfeitures collected | No Orphans and Minors apprenticed | Numbers Schools  | Numbers Scholars | Numbers Teachers | Remarks of Superintendents. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Bedford | Ramsey Joseph |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No report received |
| Cheatham |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No Superintendent |
| Cannon |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No Superintendent |
| Coffee | Smith Joel B. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 | 45 | 1 | "The freedmen in this county as a class are industriously engaged in their various occupations of support" |
| Dickson |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No Superintendent |
| Davidson | Lawrence John |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | "Magistrates and higher courts are beginning to pay more attention to the legal rights of colored men and generally their condition is brightening" |
| DeKalb | Goodwin W. H. | None | None | None | None | None | None None | None | 1 | 23 | 2 | "The state of feeling on the part of the citizens in this Sub Dist towards freedmen and the Bureau is of late much improved" |
| Franklin |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No Superintendent |
| Fentress |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No Superintendent | 
| Giles | Judd Capt Geo E. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | "Feeling of citizens now aid the Bureau. I do not think there is any ill feeling towards the Bureau or its Agent because the Agent has as little power that he amounts to nothing" |
| Grundy |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No Superintendent |
| Humphries | Gossett A. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | "The freedmen getting along very nice"
| Hickman | Puckett J N |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | "State of feeling better than it was previous to the elections" |
| Jackson |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No Superintendent |
| Lewis |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No Superintendent |
| Lawrence |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No Superintendent |
| Lincoln | Bearden Alfred |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | "Everything is moving on well in the county, with the exception of some disagreements, of working out of contracts with freed persons" |
| Montgomery | Cobb Joshua |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 
  | "The state of feeling on the part of citizens toward freedmen and the Bureau is favorable as could be expected under all the circumstances" |
| Maury | Gregory Jas H |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | "The freedmen generally are industrious and faithful to their contracts. Do not know that there is any change in the minds of the whites toward the colored people" |
| Marshall | West Moses C. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | "The freedmen are generally performing the contracts faithfully with few exceptions" |
| Macon | Rodgers Wm. W |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No report received |
| Overton |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No Superintendent |
| Perry | Taylor Jesse |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No report received |
| Putnam | Hunter B. D. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No report received |
| Robertson | Holman D. D. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | "The feelings of the people is growing more kind toward the Bureau and the colored people than heretofore" |
| Rutherford | Nelson J. K. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Feeling toward the Bureau and freedmen not favorable" |
| Smith | Goodwin W. H. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | See DeKalb Co. |
| Stewart | Stewart Geo. W. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No report received |
| Sumner | Rodgers Wm. W. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No report received |
| Wayne | Fowler J. L. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  "Feeling of citizens toward freedmen reasonably kind at this time" |
| Williamson | Judd Capt Geo E. |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | See Giles Co |
| Warren | Lowry Wm |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | x | No report received |
| White | Simpson Rev'd Rich'd |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  
 |   | x | No report received |
| Wilson | Goodwin W. H |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | See DeKalb Co. |
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Mich'l  Walsh
Captain V.R.C. and Chief Superintendent 
Nashville Sub Dist
Bureau R.F. and A. Lands

Transcription Notes:
Fixed incorrectly transcribed table, added missing sections and other corrections 7/2/21: Not sure about the word "Buvan"- please search in Transcription to confirm in context