From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from A. B. Evans and R. P. Willing to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting remittance of forfeiture against A. B. Evans. Included is a secretarial note indicating the remittance was granted on February 25.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter to R. J. Mathews, responding to Mathews's request for information concerning the Anderson Beacham case, in which Beacham was charged with arson for burning the home of Wash Ford. The letter goes on to say that Beacham was convicted upon circumstantial evidence.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William Hancock at Quitman, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a conscript released on a writ of habeas corpus.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the ""Covington Rangers,"" asking that H. C. Holloway be pardoned to join the company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from George Sargent at Natchez, Mississippi, to Major General A. C. Gillem, concerning the alleged murder of Sargent's father by soldiers of the garrison of Natchez in 1864. Sargent's letter was forwarded to the headquarters of the Fourth Military District at Vicksburg, Mississippi, along with a letter from Brevet Colonel N. A. M. Dudley summarizing Sargent's claims. Brevet Major John Tyler, Assistant Adjutant General for the Fourth Military District, forwarded Sargent's letter first to Judge James M. Smiley and later to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames along with a letter from Tyler summarizing Smiley's recommendation that the alleged murderers be arrested.