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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Hd. Quarters, Asst. Sub Asst. Commissioner, 3rd and 4th Divisions, 8th Sub District Va. Christianburg, Montgomery Co. Va., August 31st 1868. 
Bvt. Capt. Will A Coulter USA,
A.A.A.General,

Captain: I have the honor to make the following report of Bureau Affairs, in the counties of Montgomery, Pulaski, Giles, Roanoke, Craig and Floyd, (3rd and 4th Divisions, 8th Sub District, Va.) for the month of August 1868.
   The Freedmen continue to labor for their former employers, except in cases where they have been summarily dismissed from service. these as far as I can learn, have secured other homes, some of them better located, and having more conveniences and comforts. The spirit of enterprise referred to in a former report, still prevails among them, and very many have been enabled to secure little homes of their own, and are doing what they can to make themselves and families comfortable. Their educational interests during the summer vacation, has been in a measure retarded, but I find them endeavoring to improve their minds by diligent study, in all their leisure moments. Numbers of the Pupils have mastered the Books left them in charge by their Teachers, and are now anxiously awaiting their return. When schools have been continued during the summer months, and those having but a short vacation, although they have not been so largely attended, yet the interest manifested, and their advancement, has been marked by the same determined purpose to accomplish the grand end in view. At Salem, Roanoke County, the largest town I presume in southwestern Virginia, we expect to organize a large school, during the month of September, under the auspices of the Friends Freedmen Association in Philadelphia.

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