From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. M. Smith, an attorney at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning a legal case involving a white person who alleged that a freedman stole his mule.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Frances Blocker and Charity Clements at Olive Branch, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that their overseer, "Mr. Eason," be allowed to stay and not return to his unit.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. C. Saffold at Raleigh, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning discontent caused by the Exemption Law.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from D. W. Platt and John A. Womack at Raleigh, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking if the "20 Negro Law" exempts slaveholders from militia duty.