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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, of Columbus in charge of Lieut H.L. Haskell for the Month of November 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Columbus, Ga.

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 15
Day? 11
Night? 1
Sabbath? 3

3. Location of Schools? Columbus, La Grange, Hamilton Whitesville and Concord. 

4. Whole number of Teachers? 14
White? 11
Colored? 3 Sabbath school teachers not included.

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Jane E. Clark, Ellen M. Lee, Caroline Alfred, Annie E. Jenkins, Mary R. Kimball and Evelyn E. Plummer Columbus, Ga, J.M. Tarleton Whitfield Crossing Ga, Mary A.T. Pritchard, Hamilton, Emma D. Jones Hattie Jones - Smith LaGrange, Ga, Alexander Swanson Concord, Ga, Jack Johnson and Frank Joseph Whitesville, Ga.

6. Whole number of School-Houses for Freedmen in your District? 
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? 

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 2 
Day? 2
Night? 0
Sabbath? 0

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 4
Where? Whitesville, Hamilton, Davidsong, Harrisonville

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? As many as two.

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? Perhaps 50 each

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? One fourth 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? Urging the importance of Education on the colored people

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? Ten

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? Three fourths of all Expences

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 erection of school houses and the Support of Teachers

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.

Harry L. Haskell 
2nd Leut 12th US Infantry
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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