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and but few of them can read; they are so much scattered that schools can not well be established and in my opinion action by the Bureau would be useless here as there is a lawless class of people here who have been driven out of East Tennessee by the union men of that state, who could only be kept from interfering with any schools established by the Bureau, by the presence of troops. The negroes will do much better if they get up schools for themselves. I do not think such schools would be interfered with as the whites as a general thing seem willing to act fairly by them.

Not much of a report can be made in reference to Bureau affairs here as there is but little on which to base a report.

I am Gen,
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Hiram S Hunt
Lt and Asst Supt
8th Dist Dept of Potomac