6. B. Rush Plumly, Report of the Board of Education for Freedmen, Department of the Gulf, for the Year 1864 (New Orleans, LA: Office of the True Delta, 1865). (27 p.)


Report of schools for the freedmen in Louisiana with an appendix consisting of the monthly numbers of pupils, teachers, schools, class size, etc., from March through December 1864. Four additional appendices contain official documents related to the mission and scope of these schools. (The collection has two additional copies of this report, both in volume 38 [two no. 4s].)