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to one hundred and fifty dollars a year toward the payment of teachers.
It is to be hoped that the Benevolent Associations may be able to supply in part these demands.
Schools are needed more now in the country than in the Cities. In the larger towns they have become well established while in the country little aid has been furnished for school purposes.
I am General Very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
(Signed) F.D. Sewall
Col & Bvt Brig Gen Vols
A.A.I. General

Official Copy respectfully furnished Brevet Brigadier General O. Brown Asst Commissioner of Virginia

E Whittlesey
Actg. Asst. Adjt. General

War Dept. Bureau R.F. and A.L. }
Washington Oct 18th 1867 }