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Bureau RF and A.L.
Sub Asst Comm. Office
Nashville Sub-Dist
Nashville Oct. 1867

Bvt Maj Genl. W. P. Carlin
Asst Comm. Tenn

General

I have the honor to submit the following report for the month of September 1867 of the condition of the freedmen in the Nashville Sub District

Capt Geo E Judd Agent for the Counties of Giles, Lawrence, Wayne and Lincoln, thus reports

Schools

The schools have been closed during the warm weather, but are reopening and will soon be in a flourishing condition. Many of the young children will be kept busy for some time picking cotton. There will be several schools started in Giles Co, Lincoln Co will have one at least and Lawrence one. The col'd people of Wayne Co. are so much scattered that a school can hardly be kept up among them, the people of this county are nearly all loyal and would be glad to have the colored people educated

The state of feeling among the class of people who were Rebels is very bitter, more so than it was a year ago. they actually hate any one who 

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