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260 I am, General, Very Respectfully, Your Obt. Servant, (sig'd) Alfred H. Terry Major Genl, & Asst Commr Official James A Bates A.A.A.G. (2nd Vol. Folio 123) July 13th 1866 Howard Major Genl O.O. Commissioner, General, I have the honor to request that I may be furnished with six copies of printed "Instructions and forms to be observed in applying for Army and Navy pensions, under the act of June 6th 1866.- I am, General, Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servant (Sig'd) Alfred H. Terry Major Genl, & Asst. Comr, Official James A Bates A.A.A.G. (2nd Vol. Folio 124) July 13th 1866 Howard Major Genl, O.O. Commissioner, General, I have the honor to enclose the following Consolidated reports for May, 1866. Viz: "Report of Persons &c. hired" - No 2. Report of Persons &c. discharged" No 8. Also supplementary "Report of Persons &c. hired" Form 2. I am, General, Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servant (Sigd) Alfred H. Terry Major Genl, & Asst Commr Official James A. Bates A.A.A.G. 261 (2nd Vol. Folio 123) July 13th 1866. Howard Major Genl, O.O. Commissioner. General, I have the honor to enclose herewith Consolidated "report of Schools" for the month of June, 1866, and invite attention to the following remarks ~ Viz: 1st~ The schools, with few exceptions, have closed for the Summer vacation. ~ 2nd~ The field of educational effort has been gradually enlarging during the year, but a considerable number of earnest calls for teachers and books for Freedmen, and a few calls from citizens have not been met, from lack of means at the control of the benevolent associations. ~ 3rd~ There are already indications of a greatly increased demand for Schools in localities not hitherto favored.~ 4th~ No appreciable amount of Sympathy, or assistance from citizens is to be looked for, in the work of educating the Freedmen. Many of the better class of white citizens, in private conversation and in deliberative discourse, favour the education and elevation of the negro, while all the religious conventions of the State have endorsed the same idea~ But the controling classes have neither the disposition nor the ability to undertake any part of the practical work, beyond a very little in Sunday Schools.~ I am, General, Very Respectfully, Your Obt. Servant (Sig'd) Alfred H. Terry Major Genl, & Asst Commr. Official James A Bates A.A.A.G.
