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what is due for past services. I feel it incumbent on me to request that you will station troops either at Columbia, Linnville or Pulaski, to protect the negroes from brutal treatment, and to endeavor to break up the land of ruffians, styling themselves the Ku Klux Klan.
I am, General, very respectfully
Your Obedt Servt
W. P. Carlin
Bvt. Major Genl.
Asst Commr.

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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Aband. Lands.
State of Tennessee.
Assistant Commissioner's Office.
Nashville. January 14, 1868.

Brownlow. To his Excellency William G.
Governor of Tennessee.

Sir:
For some time past the negroes and some of the white Union people of Maury and Giles County have expressed great uneasiness and fear concerning the designs of a body of men styling themselves the Ku Klux Klan. 
Their organization and proceedings seem to be secret; they have been seen at night armed and mounted, and some of their speeches have been overheard. The belief is general that their object is to control the negroes by intimidation and cruelty and perhaps, by downright murder. Threats have been made also against the whites who were known as "radicals" "Union Leaguers" &c.
In the 7th inst., a party of negroes was attacked by an armed body of white men in Pulaski and one negro, Orange Rhodes, was killed, and everal more wounded. It is believed that the "Ku Klux Klan" were parties to this transaction, but as their proceeding and organization are secret, that fact cannot be ascertained positively.
Again  last Saturday night at Linnville Station twelve miles from Pulaski, the Ku Klux Band made their appearance on the plantation of Mr. Killes Dickinson, seized Frank Dickinson, and two black men, and inflicted upon them a most brutal and cruel flogging. I have seen the scars on Frank Dickinson's body, A copy