From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Invoice from Thomas C. Sullivan of subsistence stores transferred to M. B. Sullivan.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, enclosing a requisition for rations as chairman of the relief committee.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Benjamin A. Lee to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Governor Ames that supplies were received from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and thanking Ames for his help.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from A. T. Morgan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting one thousand rations for thirty days for overflow sufferers in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from H. P. Scott to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for twenty rations to be shipped to Halls Landing, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from Secretary of War William W. Belkamp to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, telling Howe that supplies in New Orleans, Louisiana, will be made available for Governor Ames.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from H. P. Scott to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting additional rations for overflow victims in Issaquena County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from G. W. Gayles to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, listing overflow sufferers in need of aid.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for a pardon for Joseph M. Wilson, who was convicted of forgery. Recommendation against pardon from the District Attorney is included.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Edward Collins to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting overflow aid.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Requisition for 35,000 rations, signed by Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from M. B. Sullivan to Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, requesting one hundred dollars for drayage of provisions.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from George E. Hasie to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, telling the situation of the overflow sufferers and asking for more aid.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from E. Jeffords to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, sending thanks for being appointed to the overflow relief committee.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. R. Howe to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames that an appropriation bill has passed.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Duncan and Mason to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting aid for 300 formerly enslaved people at Canty Plantation.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles W. Clarke to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting leave of absence for ninety days. Leave granted for sixty days.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from H. P. Scott to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Governor Ames that there are very few overflow sufferers in Issaquena County, Mississippi, counting only 50.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from R. J. Martin to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting aid and giving a list of names of those impacted by the overflow at Carson's Landing, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Thomas Bland to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, listing overflow sufferers in need of aid.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from Henry C. Griffin to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, declining membership on the relief committee because rations were not shipped to Natchez, Mississippi, as requested.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from James H. Hummel to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, forwarding a request for aid from Clarksville, Mississippi, in Wilkinson County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from M. B. Sullivan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Governor Ames that supplies were shipped that evening.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from George N. Raymond to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, inquiring where and on what boat overflow rations were shipped.
