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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 H H Burton for the Month of April 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?  8
Day?  7
Night?  1
Sabbath?  2
3.  Location of Schools?
Eufaula (3)
Glennville (2)
Mt. Pleasant (1)
Louisville (1)
Troy (1)
4.  Whole number of Teachers?  8
White?  3
Colored?  5
5.  Names and post-office address of Day=School Teachers?
Mr. & Mrs. C. P. Wheeler, and Mrs. H. Dowdell, Eufaula 
Thomas Harvey, Glennville - Day. Glennville - Vinson, Mt. Pleasant Louisville, John Wiley, Troy
6.  Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District?  7
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?
Day?
Night?
Sabbath?
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?
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?
Generally opposed to Colored schools and indifferent as to schools for Poor Whites
17.  Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?
In what way could they be carried on?
18.  What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?  By furnishing teachers and paying them
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.

H. H. Burton
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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