From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. T. Morgan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, acknowledging receipt of rations at Yazoo County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Sheriff of Sunflower County, Mississippi J. D. Ringer to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, listing overflow sufferers in Sunflower County.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal document from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to the Sheriff of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, containing a stay of execution of William and Jesse Jones, convicted of murder.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. A. Taylor in Wilkinson County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting supplies for four overflow victims that Taylor has taken in near Fort Adams, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Thomas C. Sullivan in New Orleans, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, acknowledging receipt of order for rations for Bolivar County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. D. Barton to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recounting views of A. D. Jones.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, remitting a forfeiture against Thomas Holderness.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Document listing supplies ordered by Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames on May 19 and 22.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, a petition for pardon for Wash Bell, convicted of grand larceny.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames to the Sheriff of Scott County, Mississippi, enclosing a commutation of sentence of William and Jesse Jones, convicted of murder, to life in prison.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from B. K. Bruce to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that back waters are rising and the number of sufferers is increasing in Bolivar County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from James Tollerson in Lexington, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting Ames intervene to lower his bond.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from E. Jeffords to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing the distribution of rations in Issaquena County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from G. M. Raymond to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting supplies be sent to Natchez, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles Clark to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, acknowledging his appointment to the overflow relief committee and informing Ames of the overflow conditions near Beulah, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from T. B. Stout to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that Elisha Swaim, charged with murder in Mississippi, has been arrested in Arkansas.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William Muller in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting rations after previous letters to Judge Jeffords and Lieutenant Governor Alexander Davis have gone unanswered.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Henry B. Whitfield in Jackson, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting a remittance of the forfeiture against Molinda Connor.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles Clark to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, stating that early estimates of the overflow were low and that water levels are rising in the area of Beulah, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. M. Conner to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, acknowledging receipt of remittance of forfeitures against Malinda Conner.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mayor B. A. Lee of Vicksburg, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, listing supplies received and their distribution in Warren County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, remitting a forfeiture against Molinda Connor.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a commutation of the sentence of Fred Jenkins, convicted of stealing money.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Thomas C. Sullivan in New Orleans, Louisiana to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that the War Department has fixed the daily issue of rations for Mississippi at 12,000 a day.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mrs. William Hoover to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a resolution by the maternal association of Summit, Mississippi, thanking Ames for his support of temperance.
