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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Office Sup Education, District of Virginia,
Richmond, Va., June 4 1868

Bvt. Brig. Gen. O.Brown
Asst. Comm.

General:
I have the honor to report that in obedience to Special Order No. 61, I visited Fredericksburg on the 2nd inst. and made a careful inspection of the Freedmen's School at that place. Mrs. E. P. Stoutenberg and daughter have conducted this school from its original opening in Oct. 1865 to the present time. It has always merited and maintained a high reputation for usefulness, and has never been more worthy of it than at present. No change, therefore, is desirable as far as the instruction is concerned.

Like many other schools in Virginia, this has been held in the Freedmen's Church, and has been as well accommodated as other schools in similar buildings. Such buildings, however, are not well adapted to school purposes, particularly when two or more teachers are compelled to labor in the same room. Efforts have been made, from time to time, to rent better accommodations,

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