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Washington, D.C.
Sept. 1st 1867.

Bvt. Brig. Genl. C.H. Howard.
Asst. Comr. D.C.
Bureau R.F. & A.L.

General:

I have the honor to report that during the past month, I have, with others, visited Calvert County, Md. We met about 1000 of the Colored people and some one or two hundred Whites, and addressed them upon the subject of Education. Many of the most violent of our opposers expressed themselves pleased with the speeches, and we have reason to beleive that they will be more favorable to the education of the colored people in future. Mr. J.H. Butler has been employed to canvass the County and establish schools wherever he can. Already he has succeeded so far as to request us to send lumber for four School Houses.

I have also visited Hardy and Hampshire Counties West Virginia, where, during the war, some of the bitterest rebels lived, and where a rebellious spirit is yet very manifest, and still a few earnest Union men are there found. The State School law is very obnoxious to a large portion of the people