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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 A S Bennett, 1" Lieut 15" Infty for the Month of March 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R.,F., & A.L.]

1.  Name of your Sub-District?  Demopolis:
2.  Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District?
Day?
Night?
Sabbath?
3.  Location of Schools?
Livingston K Gandy's Landing, Hale Co. The school at Demopolis, has closed on account of sickness,
4.  Whole number of Teachers?  3
White?  3
Colored?
5.  Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?
Daniel Pike & Mrs Sarah Bowman, Livingston Ala. Thos W. Crevitt, Greensboro' Ala:
6.  Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District?  2
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?   Condition good, - Capacity 350; Owned by Freedmen, Value $1050:
7.  Number of your visits to Schools?
Day?
Night?
Sabbath?
8.  Number of educational meetings held by you during the month?
Where?   None
9.  Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?  Gainesville, Greensbor'o, Newbern, Shiloh, Jefferson, Linden, McKinley; Prairieville, Spring Hill, Macon & many others:
10.  Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools?   1280, at places above mentioned, Not less than 30,000 in the District:
11.  Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?  Not more than sufficient to pay board of Teachers:
12.  What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?   My time is fully occupied with other duties:
13.  Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District?   From thirty to forty.
14.  Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?  I think it might be done,
15.  To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases?  50 per cent at least
16.  What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites?   Some portions of District quite hostile, and everywhere the prejudice against Schools is becoming apparent, the result of political agitation.
17.  Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?
In what way could they be carried on?   Would not be advisable to start any, during the Spring & Summer months.
18.  What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?   But few in the District:
19.  How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?   Until the State provides for them:

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.

A S Bennett
Lieut 15" Infantry & Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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