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New Berne N.C.
November. 11. 1867

Major General O.O. Howard
Commissioner Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Washington City, D.C.

General:- According to special order No 160 I have the honor to report, that the educational condition of the Freedmen at this place is comparatively prosperous. There are here, including the one at Hunts Camp, nine schools. Six of these schools are free and patronized respectively by the Freedmens Union Commission; the Protestant Episcopal Freedmens Commission, and the American Missionary Association of New York. 

Misses Ellen Roper and Adams, J.W. Berghduff, and Miss R. Thomas are employed by the first named Society and teach schools in the following places of the following numbers, to wit, Miss Roper in Andrews Chapel; her school numbering sixty five; Miss Adams in a small building repaired, by the Bureau, for school purposes, her school numbering thirty scholars. There are departments, or grades, of the same school. Miss Roper being principal and Miss Adams her assistant teacher. This school was opened on the 28th of October 1867. Mr. Berghduff and Miss Thomas, a colored lady teach at Trent Camp. The school of the former numbers thirty one, and that of the latter, forty five scholars. There are in fact departments or grades of the same school. Mr. Bergduff being the principal and Miss Thomas his assistant teacher. This school was opened November