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In 1871, the Department of Justice contracted the services of the Pinkerton Detective Agency to help in the detection & prosecution of those guilty of violating federal law. But in the aftermath of the Homestead Strike of 1892, Congress prohibited the government from hiring the services of the Pinkerton's. As a result... The Guardsmen were born.