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Sargent had commanded a Negro infantry regiment, but both Colby and Miller were civilians. (2)

Colby and Miller were responsible for the education of Arkansas's freedmen, and it was under their supervision that AMA teachers carried out the second phase of their work in the state. Indeed, Miller from January 1867 to

Courtesy Harper's Weekly

Scene depicting a freedmen's school in session.

September 1868 served as secretary of the AMA organizations in Arkansas as well as bureau assistant superintendent of schools. He thus thus friendly toward the work of the AMA. (3)

The responsibility for establishing freedmen's schools was lodged in the county bureau agent, who was responsible for general operations of the bureau at the local level but who was directed to give particular attention to the need for a county school system.

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2. Ibid.; Little Rock Evening Republican, Nov. 25, 1867, p. 2.

3. Staples, Reconstruction in Arkansas, 196; Evening Republican, Nov. 25, 1867, p. 2.

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