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SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Ala, in charge of Geo. P. Sherwood for the month of July 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 Refugees or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 9 Day? 1 Night? 7 Sabbath? 

3. Location of Schools? Columbiena Childersburg Talladega Harpersvill Fredricksburg Silver Run Rushing Springs Salt Creek Kingston 

4. Whole number of Teachers? 1 White? 9 Colored? 

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Miss E.S. Thompson Columbiena. [[Charley?]] Johnson Childersburg. Alabama White Talladega. [[?]] Cruikshank Harpersville. Carrie Jacobs Silver Run. Mary Kidd Talladega. Amanda Lipscomb Munford. Georgie White Alpine. Albert Brown Alpine.
 
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 1 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? Capacity 500 Pupils value $8000. American Missionary Association

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

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 1 Where? Fredricksburg

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Ashville Montabello and Lineville

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools? Four hundred

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Not any

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? All in my power.
   
13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in you Sub-District? Ten or twelve

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? No

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

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? In some localities favorable in others no interest is manifested for them

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes  In what way could they be carried on? By the teachers of the day school conducting them.

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Furnishing School houses and assisting in paying the salary of the teachers
 
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Five or ten years


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.

Geo. P. Sherwood
1st Lieut 42d US Inft
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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