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Union Springs Ala.
March 26th 1867

Major Genl. Swayne
Montgomery

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

Genl,
The colored people in the vicinity of Town Creek in this County, (Bullock), are anxious that a school should be organized there for the benefit of their children.  The Church is surrounded by large plantations, & is in the midst a large community of quiet & industrious black people.  They have requested Mr. G. W. Germany, an old resident of the neighborhood, with whom most of them have been