[1240] Daily News, Oct. 21, 1865 (Mobile correspondent); De Bow’s Review, 1866 (Dr. Nott).
[1241] Swayne’s Report, Oct. 31, 1866.
[1242] The account of this particular school was given me by Dr. O. D. Smith of Auburn, Ala., who was one of the men who chose the white teacher.
[1243] Swayne’s Report, Oct. 31, 1866.
[1244] Report, Oct. 31, 1866.
[1245] Rent was usually paid at the rate of $20 a month for thirty pupils. Ho. Rept., No. 121, pp. 47, 369, 374, 377, 41st Cong., 2d Sess. The books of the American Missionary Association showed that it had received, in 1868 and 1869, from the Freedmen’s Bureau for Alabama, the following amounts in cash, though how much it received before these dates is not known.
| December, 1867 | $4000.00 | ||
| October, 1868 | 583.86 | ||
| February, 1868 | 25.41 | (?) | |
| January, 1869 | 218.25 | ||
| April, 1869 | 683.53 | ||
| May, 1869 | 1397.49 | ||
| June, 1869 | 95.87 | ||
| July, 1869 | 527.00 | ||
| September, 1869 | 3049.59 | ||
| November, 1869 | 3469.50 | ||
| December, 1869 | 2083.78 | ||
| For building (?) | 20,000.00 |
An item in the account of the Association was “Chicago to Mobile, $20,000.” No one was able to explain what it meant unless it was the $20,000 building in Mobile used as a training school for negro teachers and on which the Bureau paid rent. In the southern states the Bureau paid to the American Missionary Association, as shown by the books of the latter, $213,753.22. Judging from the variable items not noted above, rent was evidently not included nor even all the cash. Ho. Rept., No. 121, p. 369 et seq., 41st Cong., 2d Sess. (Howard Investigation).
[1246] Buckley’s Report for March 15, 1867; Semiannual Report on Schools for Freedmen, July 4, 1867; General Clanton in Ku Klux Rept. Ala. Test.
[1247] Francis Wayland.