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and for a fuller and more accurate account of the success of them I will refer you to your representative, and our friend (in all that is good) Capt A. P. Ketchum, who together with other officers, attended an examination of the "Bryan School" on the eleventh inst, which I had called at the conclusion of the first six months in order to test my stewardship.

You will please General, allow in this connection to express in behalf of the children entrusted to my care, their thanks for many little favors from the Capt.

These schools were supported entirely by individual contributions, which, from a want of business has been totally reduced. This very unfavorable circumstance caused us then to make an appeal to Brev't Brig Gen'l Woodford Commanding, at that time, the Post of Sav'h. He very generously came to our aid, and we were enabled to liquidate our indebtedness up to June.

Other schools were established subsequently by charitable institutions at the north. One by the American Missionary