From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from John M. Grant in Noxubee County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, stating that Dr. William D. Lyles was not a "rabid secessionist" as others have alleged.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from John B. Nevett at Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, asking whether he should apply for a pardon from the President of the United States.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from John A. Hanson at Carthage, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, forwarding the original amnesty oath taken by the civil officers of Leake County, Mississippi. Hanson also gives the names of men he recommends to fill the vacancies left by those civil officers who are ineligible to take the oath. (Forwarded documents not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Jeff Brown in Louisville, Kentucky, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, asking to be appointed a commissioner of deeds for the state of Mississippi in Kentucky.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter form J. Pearce at Nitta Yuma, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, offering his ideas on how to implement a system of free labor on Mississippi plantations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. C. Vaughan at Leavenworth, Kansas, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, introducing his friend James D. Snoddy.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from H. W. Foote at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning a mule taken from its owner by the United States government because it has a "C. S." brand on it.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from H. H. Dalton at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, enclosing his letter to President Andrew Johnson and asking that Sharkey recommend him for a pardon to President Johnson. (Enclosed letter not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from George S. Gaines in State Line, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, complaining about federal policies which he says are encouraging formerly enslaved people to leave plantations. Gaines is frustrated that plantation owners can no longer legally exercise control over African Americans and their labor. He complains that planters cannot produce enough cotton, corn, and other crops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from G. Donnellan at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, acknowledging his appointment as a notary public for Warren County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from E. H. Sanders at Durant, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, informing Sharkey that a militia company commanded by Captain D. W. T. Sanders has been formed in Attala County, Mississippi, and is awaiting his orders.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Daniel Langdon at Sullivan, Indiana, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if the courts in Hinds County, Mississippi, are in session and if the court records survived the Civil War.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Caleb Lindsey at Plauding, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, recommending Simeon Collins for probate judge of Jasper County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from C. C. Eustis at Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking Sharkey to endorse he and his father's petitions for their property be returned to them.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from C. C. Burk at Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, seeking payment for repairs done in 1861.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from the firm of Burnham and Bartlett in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, offering their services as shorthand writers to cover the state Constitutional Convention.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from B. H. Shepard at Oaklona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if it was legal for him to administer the amnesty oath to the probate court of another county.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from A. L. Montgomery at Madison, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, asking Sharkey to recommend his son, a veteran, for a position working under the tax collector of Madison County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from A. J. Gillespie at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, recommending Morris Gattman for a pardon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Amnesty oath taken by N. J. Gilmer in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The oath is witnessed by justice of the peace Theophilus Harvey.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Affidavit containing the sworn statements and requests of Amelia Harnesberger in Lowndes County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the cotton she sold to the Confederate government be returned. Hornesberger's statements explain that she feared that Confederate forces would destroy all her crops if she did not sell a portion of them to the Confederacy. Hornesberger reports that she was paid in Confederate bonds and notes for her cotton bales. She asks that the United States government see the sold cotton restored to her, and that she receive the benefits of the amnesty proclamation. The statements in this affidavit were recorded by and sworn before Theophilus Harvey, a magistrate and notary for Lowndes County.