 The company harassed Confederate officials, with numerous tax collectors, conscript officers, and other officials being reported killed in early 1864.In March 1864, the Jones County court clerk notified the governor that guerillas had made tax collections in the county all but impossible.In 2016, a letter dated February 13, 1864 from a Union scout addressed to Maj. Gen. John M. Palmer of the Union Army was discovered by a historian working in the National Archives.