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the coming fall and winter, I think the education of the freedman will be fully cared for.

From Culpepper C.H. I went to Orange C. H. There I also addressed an audience of white and colored people in the court house. They heard me attentively, and for the most part seemed to approve of what I said by way of advising and urging them in good earnest upon the work of educating and elevating themselves. Here I found a small school in session, taught by a Mr. S. W. W. Mannaway (col'd).  I was unable to examine his school as he had dismissed it for the day on which I was at Orange. The school house owned by the colored people at this place, is a very good one, well located and quite well arranged. The only schools for freedman established in Orange county, are at Gordonsville, Orange C. H., and one near

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