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The day school at this place is taught by a colored man and numbers forty two scholars. They are still in expectation of receiving a Teacher, from one of the benevolent Societies of the North, but are trying to make the best of their present circumstances. 

At Snowville, on Little River, the boundary line between Montgomery and Pulaski County, the Campbellite Baptists have a Sunday School for Freedmen - [[strikethrough]]it numbers___Male Teachers____Female Teachers____Male Scholars____Female Scholars____Commenced the __day of ___1867[[/strikethrough]]

At McDonald's Mills Montgomery County - a white lady Miss McDaniels has an interesting week day school for colored children, numbering fifteen scholars. While all through the several counties (with the Books kindly furnished me, by the Am. Sun. School. Union and American Baptist, Pub. Society, and individual donations) a number of Ladies have interested themselves in behalf of the Freed-children and are teaching them to read, write, and cipher. We feel very anxious to have schools started at Blacksburg in this County, and Pearisburg, the county seat of Giles County. In the former there is a large negro population, but not a single house can be rented for School purposes. The only plan is to purchase a Lot and build but this will require six to seven hundred Dollars, very little if any of which, could be raised in that community - although was it in the power of the colored people, they would do so at once.

Transcription Notes:
"Campbellite is a mildly pejorative term referring to adherents of certain religious groups that have historic roots in the Restoration Movement, among whose most prominent 19th-century leaders were Thomas and Alexander Campbell."