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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 Lieut G P Sherwood 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? Talladega

2. Whole number of Refugees or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 5 Day? 5 Night?  Sabbath? 6

3. Location of Schools? Talladega Columbiana Alexandria Elyton  

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

4. Whole number of Teachers? 5 White? 3 Colored? 2

5. Names and post office address of Day-School Teachers? Mrs C.W. Hopson Wm P. Gilbert Talladega  Miss E S. Thompson Columbiana  Minta Morrow Alexandria  Annie Thrift Elyton.

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 2 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? One capacity 500 pupils values $8000 Bureau R F & A L one capacity 200 pupils value $500 owned by freedmen

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 3 Day? 3 Night? 0 Sabbath? 0

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

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

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

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for Schools 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 favor 

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

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a school Committee pledged to carry on Schools therein? The county Supts under the state law are now organizing School Districts. 

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? Favorable 

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 schools concluding them

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? By furnishing School House
 
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Not more than three 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
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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