From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. General Orders No. 53 from United States Adjutant General E. D. Townsend, revoking General Orders No. 40.

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.