Viewing page 31 of 236

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

0737

Schools- There are but four schools in operation two in Westmoreland and two in this County one in Warsaw Mr. Charles Z Wright (white) Teacher, day school average attendance fifty scholars and a night school with an average attendance of sixty scholars, the scholars are improving very rapidly many of whom are now in general intelligence far in advance of their Old Masters. The Freedmen are very anxious to acquire knowledge so eager are some of the men to attend night school that they will work hard all day and walk seven or eight miles in the evening. Mr Wright is an ex Rebel Soldier who was forced into the Army but is loyal and true to the union and is now one of the worse abused men more hated and derided by the unrepentant rebels than can be found in my Dist, but he heeds them not, but prides in his noble calling and moves on in the even "tenor of his way". his course certainly is commendable. The other school is at Dersetsville. Mr Isaiah Hankinson (Colored) Teacher, average daily attendance fifty none of whom are very far advanced, but are improving. The building in which the latter school is kept is owned and the school sustained by the Freedmen. The former is sustained by the Freedmen but the Building is rented from Mr LR Stewart of

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-22 19:59:27