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[Ed. Form, No. 4.]

Sub-Assistant Commissioner's (Or Agent's) Monthly Report on Education of Freedmen, and Refugees in Sub-District, State of  Alabama in charge of Jas. F McGogy S.A.C. 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?  Talladega

2.  Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District?  5
Day?  6
Night?  6
Sabbath?

3.  Location of Schools?  Talladega Sr Talladega Jr. Childersburg, Columbiana, Fredricksburg - One Sabbath school at Mardersvill one night school at Talladega, one at Childersburg and one at Fredricksburg

4.  Whole number of Teachers?  5 White?  3 Colored?

5.  Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?
Henry E Brown  Wm P. Gilbury, Mrs. E. M. Hopson, Miss Phebee Bebee, Miss Alabama White, Talladega Ala 
Miss E. A. Thompson, Columbiana, Shelby Co Ala
Chesley Johnson (Col). Childersburg,
Miss Georgia White [[strikethrough]] Fredricksburg [[/strikethrough]] Talladega Ala

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

6.  Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District?  5
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?  
One owned by American Missionary Association capacity 600 pupils value $8000, being repaired, one by freed people capacity 100 value $250 fair condition   one at Childersburg capacity 75 pupils value $300, one at Columbiana, capacity 150 pupils value $500 owned by private indi. one at Manrdersvill capacity 250 pupils value $600 owned by Baptist churc

7.  Number of your visits to Schools?  4
Day?   1
Night?   3
Sabbath?

8.  Number of educational meetings held by you during the month?   1
Where?  at Resident of Rev H E. Brown Talladega Ala

9.  Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?  Sylacauga & Munford Mordersvill Jacksonville Alexandria Gadsden Centre Ashville Harpersville, Montevallo

10.  Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools?   600

11.  Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?   Twenty dollars

12.  What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?  
Instruct parents in industry and economy and incourage them to educate as fast as possible owing to unsettled state of Affairs. I have made no efforts to obtain asst from stat Gt

13.  Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District?  Ten

14.  Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?   Have failed 

15.  To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases?  A Portion pay of a teacher

16.  What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites?  Beging to be favorable among the more intelligent, but no effort is made to encourage it. 

17.  Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes
In what way could they be carried on?  By a little assistant from without

18.  What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?   By encouragement to all and assistance used with discretion 

19.  How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?   Until the Country becomes prosperous

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.

J. F. McGogy
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R.,F., & A.L.

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