From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition from Burrel Whitesides of Monroe County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, regarding voter registration. Attached is a sample ballot Union Republican state ticket.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition from I. M. Broom of Lee County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, regarding voter registration. Attached is a sample ballot Democratic state ticket.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition from I. M. Shellman of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames regarding voter registration. Attached is a sample ballot Democratic state ticket.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition of voter registration from Jack Rogers Ford of Guntown, Mississippi, sworn before Elections Commissioner J. V. Thomas of Itawamba County, Mississippi. Document includes an attached sample state Democratic electoral ticket.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition from James Farr of Itawamba County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, regarding voter registration. Attached is a sample ballot Union Republican state ticket.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition of voter registration from Jessy C. Whitesides of Richmond, Mississippi, sworn before Elections Commissioner I. H. Flood of Itawamba County, Mississippi. Document includes an attached sample state National Union Republican electoral ticket.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition from John C. Gaett of Monroe County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, regarding voter registration. Attached is a sample ballot Union Republican state ticket.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition from Robert Robinson of Monroe County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, regarding voter registration. Attached is a sample ballot on Union Republican Ticket.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Claim from Robert Wood, a former probate court clerk and Confederate veteran, in Adams County, Mississippi, to Brevet Major General Irvin McDowell, the Commander of the Fourth Military District, concerning his right to register and vote. Claim was denied citing constitutional authority by McDowell.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from G. S. Fox, W. L. Hemingway, and W. G. Beau of Carroll County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting a pardon for Henry Blackbern.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Printed booklet from Florida Governor Harrison Reed to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, consisting of a transcript of the annual message to the legislature of Florida with accompanying documents.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from C. A. Sullivan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, petitioning for pardon on behalf of prisoner Miles Bell, a freedman convicted of assault witb intent to kill.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from L. L. Crounse at Washington, District of Columbia, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting the results of the election.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes at Columbus, Ohio, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, transmitting a copy of a joint resolution passed by the Ohio General Assembly rejecting the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The copy of the resolution is certified by Ohio Secretary of State Isaac R. Sherwood.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition of voter registration from G. B. Keinbell of Ripley, Mississippi. Document includes an attached National Union Republican state electoral ticket with some candidate names crossed out. The word "for" in the Republican slogan "for the Constitution" is also crossed out and replaced with the word "against."
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition of voter registration from G. G. Anderson of Yazoo City, Mississippi.Document includes an attached National Union Republican state electoral ticket with some candidate names crossed out. The word "for" in the Republican slogan "for the Constitution" is also crossed out and replaced with the word "against."
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Deposition of voter registration from R. K. Byrn of Shiloh, Mississippi. Document includes an attached National Union Republican state electoral ticket with some candidate names crossed out. The word "for" in the Republican slogan "for the Constitution" is also crossed out and replaced with the word "against." Also attached is a fragment of a note from clerk A. M. Green.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from P. M. Wilson at Oxford, Mississippi, to Major William Atwood, enclosing a list of registered voters in Beat One, Lafayette County, Mississippi, who did not vote in the December 30, 1869 election.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. List of appointments to office by Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for the year 1869.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mark Joseph of Vernon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames detailing the "Vernon Democratic Club's" attack of local African Americans and calling for state protection of African Americans.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from C. C. Shackleford at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning a proxy vote for the shareholders in the Mississippi Central Railroad.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from B. F. Woorsham, a probate judge, at Okolona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Mobile, Alabama, asking Clark if he had ordered the legislative elections for Tippah County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. L. Morris to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting sixty rifles for the new Volunteer Rifle Company, a militia company being formed by the local citizens.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. B. Davis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus enclosing a circular calling on Southern governors to save the South from alleged Northern tyranny.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. B. Davis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus entitled "Circular to the Southern Governors" outlining alleged conspiracy by the North against the Southern States.
