Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: In a July 8, 1864 note from R. M. Pike, by order of Brigadier General Edward Hatch, Colonel George Patterson is commanded to report for citizen train guard in Memphis. Attached to the note are two newspaper clippings related to Special Order No. 74, requiring prominent Memphis secessionists to ride trains from Memphis to LaGrange in order to curb attacks on the railroads by Confederate soldiers and guerrillas.According to the newspaper clipping reprinting the order, "forty of the...