From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from B. A. Lee to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that supplies were received and detailing their distribution.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from O. C. French to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that French was approached with a deal to support Colonel Wells for United States Senate in exchange for a payoff. Includes an additional copy of the letter.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from C. A. Sullivan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, protesting the Governor's siding with the presiding judge in issuing or denying paroles.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Thomas C. Sullivan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, acknowledging receipt of order of 10,000 rations to be sent to Yazoo City, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Proclamation of the election of James Bunch as constable of the 5th district in Noxubee County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles W. Clarke to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing rations received and their distribution in Washington County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. V. Waddell to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames that the water is beginning to recede in Coahoma and Tunica Counties, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from D. F. Kenner to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that the committee will continue paying freight charges for supplies.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from G. C. Chandler to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Governor Ames that indictments against Rhett and Phillips for dueling are being sent to him. Chandler also comments on loopholes in the state's anti-dueling law.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from E. Hill to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, inquiring about the status of a bill to legalize the acts of the Board of Supervisors of multiple Mississippi counties.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from H. T. Martin to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that floodwater is subsiding, but supplies are still needed.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from A. T. Morgan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing an urgent request to have rations sent from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Yazoo City, Mississippi for overflow relief.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from George M. Raymond to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that supplies will be distributed as needed and that another order for supplies will be coming.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from M. B. Wellborn to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, resigning as county surveyor of Jones County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from Henry C. Griffin to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing the Governor that supplies arrived in wrong place and could not be distributed.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. R. Davol to J. D. Hough, requesting Hough's presence at a board meeting for the lunatic asylum. Includes Hough's reply.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. R. Howe to United States Attorney General George H. Williams, containing a cover letter for a letter from the Governor who is making charges against G. W. Wells, a candidate for district attorney for northern Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to B. M. Sullivan and Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, detailing destitute condition of residents near the levee break at Carson's Landing.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Document from T. J. White to the Sheriff of Noxubee County, Mississippi., containing an order to seize Haywood Vance and keep him until he can be transferred to the penitentiary.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Lewis S. Lobdell, M. E. Newman and Ben Franklin to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis and Senator B. K. Bruce, requesting for supplies for 300 people to be sent to Catfish Point in Bolivar County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from J. N. Brown to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing the Governor that the levee broke at Tunica, Mississippi and Coahoma, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William Muller to Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, informing the Governor of the suffering along the Sunflower River. Includes head count from Captain Joel Stevens.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to B. A. Lee from W. B. Lewis, George W. Boyd and Abraham Latham, confirming receipt of supplies and requesting more. Note included that the letter was forwarded to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames.
