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SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Alabama, in charge of Sam'l S. Gardner, S. A. Commr for the month of June 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Sub Dist of Greenville

2. Whole number of Refugees or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 5 Day? 3 Night? 0 Sabbath? 2

3. Location of Schools? Greenville Alabama

[[Stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/Stamp]]

4. Whole number of Teachers? 3 White? 3 Colored? 0 

5. Names and post office address of Day-School Teachers? 
E. S. Grover Greenville Ala.
Mrs. Harriet R. Buck Greenville Ala.
Mrs. Emma Clancy Greenville Ala.
 
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 3 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? Good Condition - capacity for many ore scholars - value $500.- One owned by Bureau Freedmen - one wholly by Bureau and one rented by Baptist Church.

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 5 Day? 4 Night? 0 Sabbath? 1

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 0 Where? 0

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? None known in which a school would be certain of support, and freedom from molestation

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools? In some locations of the Sub District there are children enough who might be instructed to fill large schools, but the almost entire loss of wages each year renders the support of schools by Freedmen very uncertain. 

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for Schools purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? In good times 30 to 50 dollars per month.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? 
Nothing beyond conversations on all suitable occasions.

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in you Sub-District? If teachers and protection could be guaranteed six or eight. At present none probably would be used.

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a school Committee pledged to carry on Schools therein? It is impracticable on account of the absence of any white friends of colored schools

15. To what extend would help from without be needed in such cases? Entire

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? Unfavorable

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes  In what way could they be carried on? For profit whenever they will pay.

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Nothing in my opinion, unless everything were provided. This prejudice would prevent the mass from attending.
 
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Until the Constitution is in successful operation - say a year after its inception. Then the school system will need for its success Teachers trained in Northern methods.


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.

Sam' S. Gardener
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.