From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from H. Johnston, a special agent of the United States Treasury Department, at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning the confiscation of cotton sold to the Confederate government.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Incomplete letter from Columbus, Mississippi, to General Peter J. Osterhaus and Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning whether civil authorities or federal military authorities have jurisdiction over local legal cases.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from H. W. Foote at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning a mule taken from its owner by the United States government because it has a "C. S." brand on it.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Frank N. Gayden at Rosedale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning a horse he sold during the Civil War that the for which buyer refuses to pay him. Gayden complains that he submitted a writ of replevin to regain the horse, but the circuit court presently has no clerk to process Gayden's request.