National Guard numbers swelled in mid-November, documents show
In the days before a Nashville judge ruled on the legality of Gov. Bill Lee’s deployment of the Tennessee National Guard to Memphis, hundreds more guardsmen surged into the city, according to public records.
Daily situation reports from President Donald Trump’s Memphis Safe Task Force show the number of National Guard personnel in Memphis jumped from 344 on Nov. 14 to 863 on Nov. 15.
For the rest of November and the first week of December there were 865 guardsmen in Memphis, the documents show.
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Samuel Hardiman
Samuel Hardiman is an enterprise reporter who focuses on government and politics. He began his career at the Tulsa World where he covered business and K-12 education. Hardiman came to Memphis in 2018 to join the Memphis Business Journal, covering government and economic development. He then served as the Commercial Appeal’s city hall reporter and later joined The Daily Memphian in 2023. His current work focuses on the intersection of government, public policy, influence and how public dollars are spent.
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