From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Printed extract of Special Orders No. 72 from Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, sent by Assistant Adjutant General W. A. Gordon, ordering the provost ,arshal to turn over John Grier and Samuel Allen, private citizens, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey for trial.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from citizens of Starkville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, recommending Joseph A. Barrow for a position in the postal service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from citizens of Starkville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that Middleton E. Owen be appointed postmaster.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from the officers of the Warren County, Mississippi, militia, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning the arrest of some of their members for disarming an African American person.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Thomas L. Brothers at Red Bluff, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking when the tax on cotton bales must be paid.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from the National Lincoln Monument Association to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey seeking donations to help build a monument over the grave of Abraham Lincoln.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sheriff M. Shannon of Warren County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning his inability to get federal authorities to turn the county jail over to him.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sheriff A. B. Carson of Washington County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, enclosing $550.00 in tax money collected by him.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from S. B. Smith in Copiah County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that his cotton tax be reduced as some of his bales were stolen.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from R. E. Harting at Old Hickory, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on his business be reduced or remitted.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from O. T. Stephens at West's Station, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, requesting authority to raise a militia company in Attala County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from A. K. Smedes at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning the estate of Alex Russell.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from John C. Hamilton at New York City, New York, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, offering his thanks for "opening the long-barred door of justice to the people of African descent."

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. J. Wheeless at Bahala, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax he paid on a number of cotton bales be remitted as they were stolen.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. B. Greaves, mayor of Clinton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey concerning a court case involving a freedman who refused to honor a verbal contract with a planter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from H. M. Hogg and Joseph A. Brent at Westville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on their businesses be remitted.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from George N. Pollan in Choctaw County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for a commission for the militia company he is raising in the county.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Charles Nettleton at New York City, New York, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for the appointment as commissioner of deeds for Mississippi in New York.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from John Pickford, captain of the West Point Guards, a local militia unit, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking when arms will be available for the company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from B. H. Jones in Lexington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if it is illegal to sell liquor for medicinal purposes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from A. E. Pyres at Hankinson's Ferry, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for help for the planters living between Big Black River and Bayou Pierre, Mississippi, whom Pyres claims "lost everything" in the Civil War.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from A. B. Bacon at New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking Sharkey to send important news and proclamations to the newspaper of Picayune, Mississippi, of which he is an editor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Incomplete letter from Lieutenant J. W. Marshall, sent by order of Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, inviting Sharkey's attention to the endorsement of Major George D. Reynolds, provost marshal of the Southern District of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Affidavit by F. B. Morris of Hinds County, Mississippi, about the alleged robbery and murder of John J. Morris by a soldier of Company I, 13th Indiana Cavalry. Morris's statement is sworn before and witnessed by justice of the peace J. H. Boyd.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel R. S. Donaldson, Assistant Commissioner of the Freedman's Bureau, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey concerning J.G. Thygpen and C.W. Allen, who are charged with killing an African American.