From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from N. R. Sledge in Sardis, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if it was necessary for him to apply for a presidential pardon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Charles B. Ames at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, requesting that Sharkey use his influence with United States President Andrew Johnson to help Ames get amnesty. Though Ames was a Unionist, he feared conscription into the war and accepted the position of Confederate assessor for Noxubee County, Mississippi.