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And yet I was informed that when the school is in session the house is well filled with scholars. I found an earnest purpose among the freedmen to educate their children and they have demonstrated this purpose, not only in sending their children to school, but in spending their hard and scanty earnings (over two hundred dollars) in building and repairing their school house, and paying $25. per year rent for the lot on which it stands. The feeling of the whites in this place toward the freedmen, appeared not to be especially hostile. Indeed, they seemed to give full approbation to all I said on the subject of their education and elevation, and their duty to aid in this work. Under the management of the Agt. of the Bureau in Culpepper C. H., whose wife, assisted by her sister, is to teach their school during

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