1865 Feb 14

PATTERSON, February 14, 1865.

Colonel BEVERIDGE,

Pilot Knob:

The Freer guerrilla band is in Butler County killing and robbing, and I think it best to send twenty men after them, if you do not want fifty men to go to Ripley County. I have not got men enough for both scouts.

JAS. SMITH,

Captain, Commanding.