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Crawford Russell Co Ala
July 5th 1867

Maj Gen Swayne
Dear Sir

By Request, I write to ask your kind consideration of an effort to establish a school for the freed children in the village of Silver Run in this county.
My information on the subject is that there are about one hundred children of the proper age to send and that there will be about 75 regular attendants.
The gentleman whom I have been requested to suggest is a Mr. Early Horn, as to his qualifications I cannot speak advisedly, only that I would judge he was possessed of the rudiments of a plain English Education.
He has been a Rebel Soldier like myself, and his left arm was shot off close to the shoulder yet his communication, and demeanor generally is such, as to promote, peace, quiet, and obedience to the National authority and policy.
I think upon the whole if it can be done