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At Home, May 13th 1866.

Brig. Gen. Davis Tillson:
Act'g Ass't Comm'r,
Bureau R.F. & A.L.

Sir -  I am still confined to my room from illness, but the emergency seems to demand that I should communicate to you the fact of the burning of one of our Freed schoolhouses this morning by some voliant rebel.  This is now the second schoolhouse burned here, and in this instance it is not only the schoolhouse, but two houses adjoining belonging to the same man the first schoolhouse did, and who is a staunch Union man.

The teacher of the school came to me this morning in great distress, and wishes my assistance in procuring another house, which can only be done by force, as all house owners seem determined not to rent their houses for colored school purposes, - some from principle and others from fear of losing their property by burning.  What can I do in the matter?  The Provost Marshal, when the first house was burnt, put the school