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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Mobile Ala Dec 23 1865

Chaplain C Buckley
Supt Freedmen Schools
Montgomery Ala

Dear Sir

Miss Squier is ready to go to Montgomery and now "reckons" she will start for there on Friday next. Will you therefore please be on the look out for her and find her at the Exchange on Saturday, unless you should judge it best that she should not go at that time; Please write. The Asst Commissioner seems to have few words for us and fewer money I am hoping that the American Missionary Association will take the school at Montgomery in hand. I think that a normal school should be sustained in suitable localities or cities to supply other schools with competent