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Clark Series 768: Box 949
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Letter from John T. Shaff to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 22, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from John T. Shaff from the Office of the Chief Commissary for the 4th District of Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark asking if his employees are exempt from the draft.
Letter from Z. A. Philips to B. M. Woolsey; May 20, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips, the general salt agent for Mississippi, to B. M. Woolsey, salt commissioner for Alabama, concerning the mining of salt in Alabama for the people of Mississippi.
Letter from B. M. Woolsey to Z. A. Philips; May 21, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from B. M. Woolsey, salt commissioner for the state of Alabama, at Clarke County, Alabama, to Mississippi salt agent Z. A. Philips, concerning the mining of salt in Alabama for the people of Mississippi. Woolsey states that he does not think it is proper for Philips to contract with Alabama salt manufacturers. He requests that Philips not take any further action until Alabama Governor Thomas H. Watts renders a decision on the matter.
Letter to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; May 22, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from an unnamed person (possibly Z. A. Philips, general salt agent for Mississippi) onboard the steamboat "Admiral" to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the use of Mississippi's convicts for labor in Alabama. (mdah_768-949-06-33 is the "enclosed document" referred to.)
Letter from J. C. Napier to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; January 18, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. C. Napier from Demopolis, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, recommending individuals who might fill his job at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
Letter from J. E. Pernett to Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon; December 28, 1863
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. E. Pernett to Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon, Pernett, who is an acting master in the Confederate Navy, proposes to transport arms and ammunition across the Mississippi River.
Letter; Undated
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Unsigned and undated letter asking if E. Q. Burwell, W. R. Nute, D. F. Bare, and J. L. Duck will receive pay after being discharged from the Mississippi Militia.
Letter from J. H. Hunter to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; 1863
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. H. Hunter to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning an order for Captains Dent and Parisot to "go out of the river."
Letter from A. M. West to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; Undated
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from A. M. West to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, resigning as general salt agent and quartermaster general for Mississippi.
Telegram from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark to General Nathan Bedford Forrest; August 17, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest, asking Forrest to order all Mississippi state troops to report to Colonel John J. Pettus at Grenada, Mississippi.
Telegram from General Nathan Bedford Forrest to Colonel G. S. Blythe; August 18, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Oxford, Mississippi, to Colonel G. S. Blythe, ordering him to collect as many men as he can at Senatobia, Mississippi.
Statement from Doctors C. B. Galloway and A. H. Cage; August 19, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Statement from Doctors C. B. Galloway and A. H. Cage at Canton, Mississippi, certifying that they have examined J. O. Wise and found him incapable of bearing arms. (This document is the enclosed certificate mentioned in mdah_768-949-10-30).
Receipt from James Whitfield; August 20, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Receipt from James Whitfield at the Depository Office at Columbus, Mississippi, for one box containing $584,580 dollars.
Petition to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 17, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens of Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that schoolmaster Thomas R. Fore be exempted from Confederate military service.
Letter from Z. A. Philips to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 19, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips at the Mississippi Salt Works to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the efforts of government officials to impress his enslaved labor force.
Letter from Z. A. Philips to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 13, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips, Mississippi state salt agent, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, informing Clark of affairs at the state salt works, concerning the impressment of enslaved workers.
Letter from W. P. Harris to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 21, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from W. P. Harris at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the new conscription law.
Letter from W. L. Williams to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 17, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from W. L. Williams at Atlanta, Georgia, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, seeking leave to go to Macon, Mississippi, to settle his accounts with Ham's battalion of the Mississippi Cavalry.
Letter from Thomas S. Gathright to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 16, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Thomas S. Gathright, principal of the Summerville Institute in Gholson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, seeking exemption from Confederate military service.
Letter from Sheriff W. S. Taylor to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 20, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Sheriff W. S. Taylor at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, enclosing a certificate from physicians to have his deputy and jailer J. O. Wyse exempted from Confederate military service. (Enclosed certificate is mdah_768-949-10-24).
Letter from Sheriff Alexander G. Noah to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 22, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Sheriff Alexander G. Noah of Attala County, Mississippi, at Kosciusko, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that W. W. Perkins, Deputy Circuit Clerk, be exempted from the draft due to illness.
Letter from S. S. Fatherree to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 19, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from S. S. Fatherree, quartermaster of Peyton's battalion of the Mississippi Cavalry, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, recommending that James Foster be exempted from Confederate military service.
Letter from R. H. Dalton to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 10, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from R. H. Dalton at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, seeking an appointment in the Mississippi state militia as a surgeon.
Letter from R. C. Miller to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 5, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from R. C. Miller, a clerk in the Mississippi House of Representatives, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking for any information Clark has on the quantity of land entered at the land offices.
Letter from O. Fatherree to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 20, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from O. Fatherree at Steen Creek, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, seeking a discharge from the state militia because of a bad arm.