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[Ed. Form, No. 4.]

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

Sub-Assistant Commissioner's (or Agent's) Monthly Report on Education of Freedmen, and Refugees in Sub=District, State of  Alabama in charge of W. O. Connelly for the Month of Feby. 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R.,F., & A.L.]

1.  Name of your Sub-District?  Sub. Dist of Eufaula, Ala.
2.  Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District?  6
Day?  3
Night?  1
Sabbath?  2
3.  Location of Schools? Eufaula, Ala., 3 - Glennville, Ala. 1
4.  Whole number of Teachers?  4
White?  2 
Colored?  2
5.  Names and post-office address of Day=School Teachers?  C. P. Wheeler, Mrs. E. [[?]] Wheeler, & Mrs. H. Dowdell, Eufaula, Ala., Thomas Harvey, Glennville, Ala.
6.  Whole number of School=houses for Freedmen in your District?
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?
7.  Number of your visits to Schools?  2
Day?  1
Night?  1
Sabbath?  2
8.  Number of educational meetings held by you during the month?
Where?
9.  Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?
10.  Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools?
11.  Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?
12.  What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?  In private conversation at the Office, and by lecturing in the country, I have urged the Col'rd. people to industry & economy, might be able to educate their children. I have recomended applications to Charitable Societies for aid, &c.   
13.  Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District?
14.  Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?
15.  To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases?
16.  What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites?  Averse to colored, and indifferent to poor whites. 
17.  Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?  Yes
In what way could they be carried on?  By help from without.
18.  What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?  Appoint a Sub. Dist. Supt. of Schools, and appropriate funds to help build houses, & support teachers.
19.  How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?

I hereby certify, on honor, that I have given personal attention to the matters herein named, and that the answers given are, according to my best knowledge and belief, correct.

W. O. Connelly.
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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