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[ED. FORM, No. 4.]

SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Georgia in charge of Bt Major John Leonard S.A. Com'r, for the Month of October 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R.,F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Columbus

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 11  Day? 11 Night? 0 Sabbath? 

3. Location of Schools? Columbus, Greenville, LaGrange, Hamilton, Hogansville, Marshallville & Talbedon.


4. Whole number of Teachers? 15 White? 11 Colored? 4 

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?  Jane E. Clark, Annie S. Jenkins, Mary B. Kimball, Caroline Alfred, Ellen M. See, Evelyn E. Plummer, W.N. Bosling col'd, Anthony Williams, col'd, and James Munroe, col'd. P.O. Columbus, Ga, Fanny H. Randall, Greenville, Ga, J.W. Tarleton, Lagrange, Ga, Mrs. M.A.T. Richard Hamilton Ga, Emanuel James col'd, Hogansville, Ga,- Wilson Talbotton, Ga, - Marshalinder Ga, 

6. Whole number of School-Houses for Freedmen in your District? 11  Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?  The schools are taught some in churches and others in houses rented for the purpose. 

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 4 Day? 4  Night? 0  Sabbath? 0

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month?  Where? 

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? 6-Buena Vista, Cuesta, Butler, Song Cane, West Point and Whitesville.

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? About 25 each.

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? 1/4 of the expences.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? I am urging the importance of Education on the Freed people, who alone take any interest in the matter. 

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? As many as 25. 

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? No.

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? 

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? unfavorable.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? No  In what way could they be carried on? 

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Appropriate money for the support of Teachers and the erection of school-houses. 

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Until they are provided for by the State.  

I hereby certify, on honor, that I have given personal attention to the matters herein named, and that the answers given are, according to my best knowledge and belief, correct.

John Leonard Bt. Major U S. Army.
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R.,F., & A.L.