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Pollard Bend Cherokee Co Ala
July 2nd 1867

Capt J F McGogg.
Freedman's Bureau
Talladega Ala

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

Sir
While you were trapsing through our section not long since you met Henry Termaine (.A Freedman in my employ,) and studied (so he tells) me) that if the Freedmen of this Community wished a school, and would make up the requisite number of scholars, that you would send them Books and a Teacher.
I am now happy to state that such steps have been taken as necessary, so far as we donors, which resulted in a subscription of - between 30 & 40 schollars. As a citizen, I feel a great interest in this matter, and since I have learned that there was a chance for such a school among us, and knowing too how anxious the Freedmen were to receive educational advantages, I have taken a lively interest in furthering the the end in view. And being called upon, by them it is with no little pleasure that I report to you the result of their exerted action upon the subject
I hesitate not to say, that with an efficient Teacher that a fine school could be organized and maintained here, from the fact the black people are industrious, respectable, and so far as my knowledge