From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, for pardon of George Stuart, convicted of murder. Pardon included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis for the pardon of Lem Hicks who was convicted of murder. Pardon granted on July 7.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from C. Byrd in Jackson, Mississippi to Colonel Fred Barrett, summarizing the case of George Crutcher.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Ewring Cowan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting a duel at Montgomery Station (currently Waveland). The duelling part from New Orleans, Louisiana, has been taken into custody.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. T. Morgan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing the shooting death of F. P. Hilliard.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning the controversial sheriff's election in Yazoo City, Mississippi and the subsequent murder of one of the claimants.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from P. B. Starke, Thos. W. Stinger, and T. J. Mitchell, members of a committee appointed to assess the affairs of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, containing the results of the committee's investigation into the condition of the penitentiary - including plantations leased by the penitentiary where some convicted persons, mostly African Americans, are made to perform labor - and its inmates. There are several pages of information concerning some inmates needing medical attention, some inmates whom the committee believed were improperly convicted, and recommended pardons or commutations of sentences. Appended are additional "special reports" concerning particular cases and persons.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from J. J. Gainey to L. M. Hall, chief of the Mississippi Secret Service, describing how he got a young Mr. Woods to confess to being a member of "the three K's" and to being involved in shooting up a widow's home, and the murder of another African American man during said incident. Gainey states that he is enclosing affidavits of witnesses to the confession. (Enclosed affidavits not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from United States Army Lieutenant Colonel P. Jones York to C. H. Clark, requiring Clark to appear at post headquarters to answer for "cases of disorder" allegedly committed by him.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from citizens of Yazoo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, announcing that they had created a militia cavalry company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from A. J. Whitehurst, W. J. Barber, and S. L. Brandon, members of the United States Army 6th Tennessee Cavalry and residents of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, expressing their concerns that former secessionists will be appointed to county offices. Objecting to being represented by the "very men, who attempted time after time, to hang us", Whitehurst, Barber, and Brandon ask Sharkey to give the authors posts that will allow them to take part in the reconstruction of the state.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from O. C. Dease in Paulding, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a pardon for David Rives.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Confederate Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk at Demopolis, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, informing him that Maury's command had attacked and dispersed the deserters in Jones County, Mississippi, and Perry County, Mississippi, and that Colonel McGuirk's regiment was not needed and should be sent to Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from Melton Brown, president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, to A. Murdock, describing allegedly violent excesses by members of Company K, 52nd United States Colored Troops, on civilians on a train at Lauderdale, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Rodney Payton to O. H. Crandall, detailing the case against fugitive John Murdock.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from S. M. Preston, former colonel of the 58th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, at Natchez, Mississippi, to General N. A. M. Dudley, introducing Israel Etta, a former corporal in Preston's regiment, who desires to testify about disturbances of the peace in Washington, Mississippi. The letter is endorsed by George Hussey.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Sheriff Joseph McCloy of Hinds County, Mississippi, to General James Biddle, regarding the murder of Medora Carr, an African-American girl, allegedly by Marsh Davis. McCloy describes the results of an inquest by a coroner's jury and requests a cavalry detachment be sent to capture Davis. The letter was forwarded to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames who directed the Mississippi Secretary of State to issue a reward of $250 for Davis' capture.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. J. Gainey, agent of the Mississippi Secret Service, to L. M. Hall describing his investigation into attacks made by the Ku Klux Klan against African Americans in Lafayette County, Mississippi, including the confession of one of the Klansmen revealing the names of the perpetrators.