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  • Description is exactly "Letter from C.A. Tenge to Col. John B. Callis about the success of the Freedmen's Public School in Florence. Historian Lee Freeman notes: "Tenge also references two or three other freedmen's schools in Lauderdale County who aren't sending reports to him, one of them named "Garner," whom Tenge calls "an adventurer." Tenge also mentions the recent fire in Florence which destroyed his saddlery, harness-making and upholstery business and the Freedmen's Bureau Office which was upstairs over his business. Tenge informs Callis that the cause of the fire was arson, and it was set in order to destroy the Bureau Office and burn out several Unionist families in Florence, however Tenge was able to save "all my books and papers."""

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According to Florence historian Lee Freeman, "The Freedmen’s Public School, seems to have succeeded a series of earlier schools, such as that taught in 1865 by native African-American and former Wesleyan College bootblack "Prof." George Poole…
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