From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from R. Cooper at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning his two sons in the Confederate Army who were indicted in Simpson County, Mississippi, for alleged murder.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Robert S. Hudson at Edinburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning his proposal to force county officials to aid in arresting alleged Confederate Army deserters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Attorney General T. J. Wharton at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the legality of having a temporary penitentiary outside the limits of the state. Wharton elaborates on why, in his opinion, said penitentiary cannot legally be located outside the state.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from R. S. Hudson at Edinburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, complaining that elected officials in Yazoo County, Mississippi, are not arresting alleged Confederate deserters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Colonel William N. Brown of the 20th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, in Bolivar County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on his regiment's raid into Jones County, Mississippi, to hunt alleged Confederate deserters, as well as the need for cotton and wool cards for the citizens. (Brown states that he is enclosing a horse comb made by the struggling widow of a Confederate soldier. Enclosed item not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from S. M. Meek at the District Attorney's office in Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, giving the facts of the conviction of M. Joice and others of burglary and larceny.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from several citizens of Poplar Creek, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning abuses allegedly committed in Choctaw County, Mississippi, by a Lieutenant Brock's cavalry. The citizens attest that Brock and his men are torturing civilians. (mdah_768-949-01-17 is a response to this document).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Undated statement concerning the arrest of Captain Peck, Provost Marshal of the Freedmen's Bureau.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sheriff W. H. Magnum of Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning the confinement of Mr. Jordan in the city jail.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General John C. Pemberton in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, informing him that Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Pettus was taken prisoner but escaped.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Edward C. Eggleston at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting information on William Henry, a Confederate soldier of the 40th Mississippi Infantry, who was locked up for desertion.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon at the War Department in Richmond, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning an attempt to capture some United States Navy gunboats.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William T. May, a Captain in the 1st Battalion, Mississippi State Troops at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus reporting on deserters in Simpson County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from D. W. Duke at Charleston, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting Pettus offer a reward for J. H. Hodnutt, who allegedly killed George R. Cook.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Barrows Samples, attorney at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a request for pardon from prisoner Thomas Jenkins, convicted of assault with intent to kill by a military commission in 1868.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Sheriff A. Parker of Amite County, Mississippi, to Lieutenant William Atwood, advising of the highway robbery and murder of Matthew Cox allegedly by Rick Sharkey and F. R. Morgan, both of whom escaped to Louisiana.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. H. Pierce at Panola, Mississippi, to Lieutenant William Atwood, advising of the jail break with outside assistance of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, prisoners C. E. Mooney and W. J. Avant. Pierce asks that a reward of $1,000 be offered for the capture of Mooney, who is accused of murder.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Report from Z. A. Philips, Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Jackson, Mississippi, to O. H. Crandall in Jackson, Mississippi, on the escapes of William Bently, Robert Brothers, Frank Watson, Boling Le Parish, and Frank Brady on November 4 and 6.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary Z. A. Philips to O. H. Crandall, providing the names, physical descriptions, birthplaces, and sentences of escaped men from the Mississippi Asylum for the Blind.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. R. Howe, Justice of the Peace in Panola County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames of the escape and ongoing manhunt for convicted rapist George Mattox.

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 Deputy J. E. Clark to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames of the escaped African-American man named Neverson Brown, who was convicted of larceny.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent Z. A. Philips to O. H. Crandall, enclosing descriptive list for two escaped fugitives from the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William Peavie, the Superintendent of the Memphis, Tennessee, Metropolitan Police, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, giving notice that escaped prisoner Mike Dunn, also known as Thomas Devine, is in custody.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Sheriff W. C. McGowan of Panola County, Mississippi, to O. H. Crandall, reporting information on fugitive John Murdock, suspected of murder and leading a band of Ku Klux Klan members in Panola County, Mississippi.