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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. E. Connelly, 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?  Eufaula.
2.  Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District?  5
Day?  6
Night?  1
Sabbath?  2
3.  Location of Schools?
Eufaula, (3)
Glennville (2)
Mt Pleasant (1)
Louisville (1)
4.  Whole number of Teachers?  7
White?  2
Colored?  5
5.  Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?
Mr & Mrs C. T. Wheeler and Mrs H. Dowdell, Eufaula.
Thomas Harvey, Glennville   Day, Glennville, - Vinson, Mt Pleasant
6.  Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District?  6
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?   
Inferior condition, very small in capacity & value, - owned principally by Freedmen.
7.  Number of your visits to Schools?  3
Day?  2
Night?  1
Sabbath?
8.  Number of educational meetings held by you during the month?  None
Where?  The great press of other Official business prevented me from holding any Ed. meetings during the Month.
9.  Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?  In Henry, Dule, Pike, Barbour and Bullock Counties. 
10.  Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools?   Henry 500, Dule 500, Pike 1000, Barbour 2000,  Bullock, 1500.
11.  Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen,   for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?   Very little, if anything.
12.  What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?  As opportunity offered, Freedmen have been urged to organize Schools.
13.  Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District?   No definite number can be given. 
14.  Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?   I think it very doubtful.
15.  To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases?   Teachers must be sent & supported.
16.  What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites?   Generally opposed to Col'd Schools, and indifferent as to schools for Poor Whites.
17.  Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?   Yes
In what way could they be carried on?   By furnishing teachers and paying them.
18.  What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?   Pay their tuition.
19.  How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?   Till Schools are sustained by the State. 

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

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