1862 July 10 Memphis, Tenn

                       District of West Tennessee
Office of the Provost Marshal General
             Memphis Tenn  July 10th  1862

Special order No 14
 The constant communication kept
existing between the rebel arm  rebel army
and their friends and sympathizers in
the city of Memphis has constrained
the issuing of the following order--
           all the families of all persons
in the so ca army of so called Confed-
erate army and of all persons
holding office under the so-called
Confederate Arm Government and
of all persons holding office  under
state, county or city municipal offices
who have left the city and claiming
allegiance to the said so-called confederate
Government and also and who are
now have absented themselves from the
city of Memphis

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The constant communication
existing between the so-called confederate
army and their friends and sympathizers
in the city of Memphis, despite the
effort made to real orders heretofore
issued and the efforts to supress  them
have constrained the issuing of the
following order--
        The families of the follow now
res of now residing in the city of
Memphis of the following persons are
               go South beyond our lines
required to leave the city within five
days from the date hereof--

1st  Persons holding commissions in the
Confederate army or who have vol
untarily enlisted in the confederate service
2nd all persons holding office or in
under or in the employ of the so-called
Confederate army-Government
3d all persons holding state, county
or municipal offices and claiming allegiance
to the so-called confederate army and
are absent from the city-