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Consolidated Report of County Superintendents Nashville Sub District for Decmber 1866. as called for by Circular 4. [[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 | Number Schools | Number Scholars | Number Teachers | Remarks of Superintendents. | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bedford | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Cheatham | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Cannon | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Coffee | Smith Joel B. | | | | None | None | | | | | | It is a fact not to be denied that the freedmen are making greater efforts to secure homes and remunerative labor at this time than ever before manifested by them" | | Dickson | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Davidson | Laurence John | | | | | | | | | | | No outrages committed on freedmen during December 1866 | | DeKalb | Goodwin W. H. | None None | None | 1 | 1 | None | None | None | 1 | 40 | 2 | Feeling toward freedmen on the part of citizens in the Sub Dist continues favorable. | | Fentress | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Franklin | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Giles | Judd Capt Geo E. | | | | | | | | | 3 | 120 | 4 | I know of no suffering among the colored people. there certainly is no need of it except among those who are old." | | Grundy | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Humphries | Gossett A. | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | Hickman | Puckett J N | | | | | | | | | | | No Report received | | Jackson | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Lewis | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Lawrence | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Lincoln | Bearden Alfred | | | | | | | | | | | With but few exceptions persons seem disposed to deal fairly with the freedmen and but few cases of cruelty have been reported to me" | | Montgomery | Cobb Joshua | None | None | None | 7 | 18 | None None | None | 4 | 400 | 4 | | | Maury | Gregory Jas H | | | | | | | | | | | | In respect to feeling toward freedmen and the Bureau, it is generally considered that such an institution in the present Status of the country not a happy thought" (1866) and in many instances parties have refused to pay them" There has been many complaints made by freedmen that they have not been settled with for the past years labor | | Marshall | West Moses C. | None | None | None | 6 | | None None | 2 | | | | The freedmen have generally complied with their contracts as far as I have been able to learn their employers have been liberal with them | | Macon | Rodgers Wm. W | | | | 27 | 27 | | | 4 | 120 | 4 | The colored people are afraid to come to me for redress fearing they will be nabbed or murdered | | Overton | | | | | | | | | | | | No Superintendent | | Perry | Taylor Jesse | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | Putnam | Hunter B. D. | None | | | None | None | None None | None | None | None | None | As to the opinion of the citizens in regard fo F. Bureau there is a total indignance" | | Robertson | Holman D. D. | | | | 160 | | | | | | | | "There is a greater demand than there was at the commencement of the year for laborers, with but little disposition on the part of the colored people to contract for the year" | | Rutherford | Nelson J. K. | | | | | | | | | | | There has been much trouble between the freedmen and their employers. | | Smith | Goodwin W. H. | | | | | | | | | | | See DeKalb Co. | | Stewart | Stewart Geo. W. | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | Sumner | Rodgers Wm. W. | | | | | | | | | | | See Macon County | | Wayne | Fowler J. L. | None | None | None | None | None | None None | None | None | None | None | State of feeling toward freedmen favorable with the exception of some few persons | | Williamson | Judd Capt Geo E. | | | | | | | | 2 | 100 | 3 | Most of the responsible farmers are settling up fairly with the negroes employed by them | | Warren | Lowry Wm | | | | | | | | | | | The freedmen and whites are getting along agreeably as could be expected | | White | Simpson Rev'd Rich'd | | | | | | | | | | | No contracts being registered | | Wilson | Goodwin W. H | | | | | | | | | | | See DeKalb County. | | | Total. | | | | 201 | 46 | | | 2 | 14 | 980 | 17 | | Mich'l Walsh Captain V.R.C. and Chief Superintendent Nashville Sub District.
