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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 Capt Wm H Hilman  Sub Asst. Comr 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? Tuscumbia Ala

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

3. Location of Schools?___ 
[[Stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/Stamp]]

4. Whole number of Teachers?___  White?___  Colored?___ 

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?___
 
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District?___  Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned?___ 

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? Tuscumbia Courtland, Moultan, and Florence 

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools? 800.

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

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? No effort at present.

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

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? 
I could not.

15. To what extend would help from without be needed in such cases? 
The erecting of buildings and employment of teachers.

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

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes  In what way could they be carried on?___

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? 
Erect buildings and employ teachers.
 
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? 
Until the country becomes more settled and 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.

Wm H Hilman Capt 15th Infty
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.