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Office [[?]] Freedmen's Mission
Knoxville, E.G. Sept 8th 1865

John Odgen,
Supt of Ed and F.S.

Sir:

In reply to your circular letter No. 2. I have the honor to report the following items in regard to Greenville and vicinity
(1)st 450
(2)nd 150
(3)d 1
(4)th 0
(5)th 0
(6)th It can not.
(7)th Very encouraging.
(8)th the Freedmen are more intelligent and the whites more friendly than at any other Post yet visited by this writer.

Resp.
R.J. Creswell,
Supt U.P.T.M.E.G. [[?]]