From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from P. K. Montgomery at Fayette, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, urging Clark to run for reelection as governor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from C. M. Vaiden at Vaiden, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the need for salt in the counties surrounding the Mississippi River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from C. A. Reading, superintendent of the Southern Railroad of Mississippi, at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, asking that two men from W. K. Easterling's regiment be detailed to work on the railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips at the Mississippi Salt Works to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the efforts of government officials to impress his enslaved labor force.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips, Mississippi state salt agent, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, informing Clark of affairs at the state salt works, concerning the impressment of enslaved workers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from the office of Chief Impressment Agent F. S. Blount at Mobile, Alabama, concerning the impressment of enslaved persons to work in the city.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. S. Avent at the office of the Chief Agent of Impressment at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning the regulations regarding the impressment of enslaved persons. (Avent states he is attaching a copy of said regulations, but the document is not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark to Mississippi Militia Brigadier General A. M. West, ordering him to impress wagons, teams, and drivers to remove government stores from Macon, Mississippi. West forwarded the letter to Major J. M. Haynes in Macon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Chief Impressment Agent F. S. Blount, at Mobile, Alabama, to A. S. Livermore, superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad at Grenada, Mississippi, concerning the impressment of twenty enslaved persons to work on the railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. S. Blount, Chief Agent of Impressment at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, informing Clark that enslaved persons will be impressed to work on the railroad in north Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from A. S. Livermore, superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad at Grenada, Mississippi, to Chief Impressment Agent F. S. Blount at Mobile, Alabama, regarding Blount's plan to impress enslaved persons to work to repair the railroad. Livermore complains about twenty day terms of impressment and states that railroad work requires persons who understand the business. He suggests impressing persons from Yalobusha, Tallahatchie, and Panola counties, Mississippi, for terms of no less than three months.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. S. Blount at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning the plan to bring in enslaved persons from Mississippi to work on the defenses of Mobile, Alabama. Blount states that he is enclosing a copy of an order to John Cowden. (The enclosed document that Blount mentions is mdah_768-949-03-27).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of letter from F. S. Blount at Jackson, Mississippi, to John Cowden, asking for help to obtain enslaved laborers to build fortifications at Mobile, Alabama. (This document is the enclosed copy of an order mentioned in mdah_768-949-03-33).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to W. C. Watson, giving his agent his thoughts on cotton and wool cards, use of state troops, foreigners in the military, impressed enslaved persons, military supplies, and soldiers fit for service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Two copies of a letter from D. S. Pattison at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the settling of his accounts as salt agent for the state.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Contract between the state of Mississippi and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to rebuild the line between Okolona, Mississippi, and Saltillo, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Martha Craigan to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Oxford, Mississippi, complaining about the burning of her cotton and impressment of her wagons and teams by the Confederate Army. (mdah_768-949-01-15 is a response to this document).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Confederate President Jefferson Davis to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark concerning African-American men about to be conscripted into the United States Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. B. Lake to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey asking what his policy will be regarding African Americans and recommending that they be required to remain at home and work for wages.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Captain John W. Young in Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that his African American overseer not be forced to report to the militia camp.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from E. M. Dillard in Montgomery, Alabama, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus if he can hire 100 African Americans from Jackson, Mississippi, or the vicinity.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from John C. Humphries in Port Gibson, Mississippi, concerning enslaved person owners refusing to allow their African Americans to be impressed for state work.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General John C. Pemberton at Vicksburg, Mississippi, requesting Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to impress African Americans to work in the city.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Colonel H. B. Lyon, commanding the post at Yazoo City, Mississippi, concerning the need to impress African Americans to establish woodyards on the Yazoo River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Colonel A. B. Lyons, commanding the post of Yazoo City, Mississippi, asking how he can procure African American workers as their owners resist impressment.