Freedmen's Bureau Records: Thomas P. Jackson to N. C. Brackett,
May 29, 1867
Summary:
Jackson writes to Brackett seeking reassurance that his society will help to support teachers
in the Shenandoah Valley during the coming summer.
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Office 4th Division, 9th Sub-District, Virginia
Reverend N. C.
Brackett
Superintendent Schools &c
May 29/67
Dear Sir
Your communication of date May 8/67 asking if Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands would aid support of teachers in Valley during the present summer &c is returned with endorsement "such aid cannot be furnished by the Bureau" I trust notwithstanding present discouragement your society will retain several if not all the teachers during this summer, taking advantage of the increasing interest manifested by the Freedpeople in Education and the disposition to tolerate schools on the part of the Whites.
Faithfully
Thos P Jackson
Agent