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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 
Hd. Quarters, Asst. Sub Asst. Commissioner, 
3rd & 4th Divisions, 8th Sub District, Virginia,
Christiansburg Montgomery Country, Va. Sept. 30th 1868. 

Bvt Capt. Will A Coulter USA. 
A A A Genl. 

Capt. I have the honor to make the following report of Bureau Affairs in the counties of Montgomery, Pulaski, Giles, Roanoke, Craig and Floyd, (3rd & 4th Division, 8th Sub District, Va.) for the month of September 1868. 

In our visits among the Freedmen we have found them busily employed in their various occupations, and preparing for the necessities of winter. 

Their school interests now command more of their attention than ever, and efforts are being made to start schools in every locality, where the Freedmen are in sufficient numbers to support them. The great hinderance is in securing competent teachers, and I presume the work will be retarded for some time to come, by reason of this difficulty. Some of the Freedmen who have been engaged in teaching colored schools, feel it their duty to give over their work in order to prepare themselves by study for higher spheres of usefulness. 

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