From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that the cannon at Oxford not be taken away.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Thomas W. Harris, Lieutenant Colonel of Ashcraft's Regiment, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Washington, District of Columbia, requesting his assistance in freeing the Mississippi field officers held at Johnson's Island Prison at Ohio.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for pardon of B. D. McGowan who was convicted of aiding the escape of a convict.