From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to Confederate Major General Dabney H. Maury, concerning the parole status of state troops captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from D. P. Porter, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking if the state troops captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi, have been exchanged.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from D. W. Lamkin, a lieutenant in the 1st Mississippi Light Artillery, at Opelika, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, asking that an enslaved person be released from jail.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Brigadier General Wirt Adams at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on the state troops attached to his command.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon at Richmond, Virginia, calling his attention to the case of A. J. Lee, a paroled and unexchanged prisoner.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from E. E. Lee and several citizens of Kemper County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that A. J. Lee be released after being arrested for alleged disloyalty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to Captain W. E. Montgomery, commander of the Herndon Rangers (Mississippi Militia, Cavalry Battalion, Second Reserves), giving him authority to move his command and impress items needed for his company. Clark also orders Montgomery to arrest anyone who gives away his unit's movements to the United States Army as spies, and gives him instructions on protecting local plantations, imprisoning African Americans, and dealing with Confederate Army deserters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return requesting two days rations to be issued for fourteen paroled prisoners at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Order from Lieutenant and Post Adjutant J. N. Taylor, on behalf of Colonel O. C. Risdon, to Captain J. P. Schooley, Post Commissary, instructing Schooley to issue two days rations to N. N. Lee and five paroled Confederate soldiers, at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Order from Lieutenant and Post Adjutant J. N. Taylor, on behalf of Colonel O. C. Risdon, to Captain J. P. Schooley, Post Commissary, instructing Schooley to issue two days rations to E. D. Wheeler, a paroled Confederate soldier, at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Order from First Lieutenant Sanford T. Odell, on behalf of Colonel O. C. Risdon, to Captain J. P. Schooley, Post Commissary, instructing Schooley to issue four days rations to a paroled Confederate prisoner at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Order from First Lieutenant and Post Adjutant Sanford T. Odell, on behalf of Colonel O. C. Risdon, to Captain J. P. Schooley, Post Commissary, instructing Schooley to issue two days rations to Samuel Jones, paroled Confederate prisoner at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Order from First Lieutenant and Post Adjutant Sanford T. Odell, on behalf of Colonel O. C. Risdon, to Captain J. P. Schooley, Post Commissary, instructing Schooley to issue two days rations to Joseph Buckley and one paroled Confederate prisoner at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Order from Colonel O. C. Risdon to Captain J. P. Schooley, Post Commissary, instructing Schooley to issue two days rations to a paroled Confederate soldier.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Order from Colonel O. C. Risdon to Captain J. P. Schooley, Post Commissary, instructing Schooley to issue two days rations to a paroled Confederate soldier.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Order from Colonel O. C. Risdon to Captain J. P. Schooley, Post Commissary, instructing Schooley to issue three days rations to four paroled Confederate soldiers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration requesting rations to be issued for fourteen paroled prisoners at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return requesting rations to be issued for 161 paroled prisoners at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Captain and Provost Marshal H. T. Fisher, requesting rations to be issued for four paroled prisoners at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Haden Leavel at Benton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if there is any truth to a rumor about an order from United States President Andrew Johnson. The rumor purports that citizens of South Carolina will be compensated for the financial value of property taken by the federal government. The rumored order, Leavel heard, would include compensation to former slaveholders, as they considered enslaved persons as "property".

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. S. Vaughan at Rodney, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that James Smith of the 3rd Texas Cavalry be released from jail, as he was arrested for refusing to give up his horse and pistol to United States Army Lieutenant Lahone, whom Smith apparently mistook for a robber. Attached are reports from several United States Army officers, which explain that Smith has since been released but has yet to reclaim his horse, money, and pistol.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from N. B. Williams at Okolona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, enclosing a petition from citizens of Okolona to have Williams appointed postmaster of the town. (Enclosed petition not present). Williams also discusses his opposition to the Civil War, his reluctant service in the Confederate Army, his parole and taking of the amnesty oath, and his readiness to go into business as postmaster as he cannot perform hard labor due to his war wounds.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Colonel William E. Bayley, Provost Marshal in Bolivar County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning amnesty oaths that he administered.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from former Confederate Brigadier General C. W. Sears at Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, requesting Sharkey's approval of his application for a special amnesty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from B. D. Castleman and W. J. D. Winton at Brooksville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the tax on their business be waived.