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character, she must have made an excellent teacher. 
Last September, Provost-marshal Higgs, then stationed at Charlottesville, promised this woman, Mrs. Sarah E. Johnson, that if she would undertake a school for colored children, he would furnish books and pay five dollars ($5.00) per month for a house to teach in, with the understanding that the parents were to pay for the tuition of their children. Upon these promises, she opened a school Nov. 15th 1867, and continued to teach up to May 1st, 1868. She taught nine day scholars & eleven night scholars, & besides furnishing books to several furnished her own lights for the night school. 
May 1st, Provost-marshal Hopkins took the place of Mr. Higgs & promised to carry out his engagements to Mrs. Johnson. He wrote her to get up a school and promised  

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