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Extracts from Letters of Teachers and Superintendents of the New-England Educational Commission for Freedmen… (1864)

The Commission was organized in Boston, February 7th, 1862. Since that date it has sent 114 Teachers and Superintendents to the South. Their names are printed below. Of these 97 went to Port Royal, 11 to Newbern, N.C., 3 to Craney Island and Norfolk, Va., and one each to Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria, D.C. Of the whole, 72 still remain, employed chiefly as Superintendents of Plantations or as Teachers. Their names are printed in Italics. The names of those who have died are marked with an asterisk.
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