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Bureau R F and A L
Cleveland Tennessee
21st Sept 1870

Brig Genl O. O. Howard
Comr Bureau R F and A L
Washington D.C.

General

I have the honor to respectfully request, if consistent, that if the Educational Department of the Bureau is still aiding schools, that some aid be given the Christain Zion Academy (Cold). This school was organized by Mr. O T Andrews in 1866 and has been under his charge as Principal ten months in the year ever since, and now has 140 students but unless he can get some aid he will be compelled to close the same. The