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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 C. P. Wheeler for the month of December 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 Refugees or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 16 Day? 5 Night? 1 Sabbath? 10

3. Location of Schools? Eufaula. Near Eufaula. Glennville. Clayton. & Union Springs.

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

4. Whole number of Teachers? 37 White? 4 Colored? 33

5. Names and post office address of Day-School Teachers?
Miss. E. M. Wright Eufaula
Alex Williams Eufaula
T. B. Clark Eufaula
J. M. Holt Union Springs
H. M. Harvey. Glennville
Thomas Kennedy Clayton

 
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 5 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? 
Condition poor. Capacity sufficient to accommodate about 75 pupils, value unknown. The School House at Eufaula owned by Alex. Hamilton: rent for remainder paid to teachers.

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 6 Day? 1 Night? 1 Sabbath? 4

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

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? 
Two. Louisville & Ft Browder

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools? 150

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for Schools purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? 
Sufficient to support teachers

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 you Sub-District? 
Two - one at Union Springs & one at Clayton.

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

15. To what extend 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? 
To the former unfriendly; to the latter indifferent.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? yes In what way could they be carried on?
By the Day School teachers

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?
 
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? 
Till the South becomes as prosperous & progressive as the north.

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.

C. P. Wheeler
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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