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a large breadth of ground under cultivation and the crops are very poor-

Many of the freedmen at this place have good employment in the U.S. Burial Corps and if they could only learn to be provident would get through the winter without serious trouble. The freedmen seem to be fully alive to the importance of education, and are about to establish two schools, with colored teachers, I am told. 

I have the honor, to be,
Very respectfully,
Your obt servt.
J. A. Yeckley
Lt & Asst Supt
Pr Geo Co. Va.

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