From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John O. Quin to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing requisition from Louisiana for the arrest and delivery of two fugitives.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William M. Pollan in Greensboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning his efforts to organize a Union League militia in Choctaw County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William M. Pollan, a veteran of the 1st Mississippi Mounted Rifles (United States), at Greensboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, regarding Pollan's election as probate judge and the organization of the militia in Choctaw County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Brigadier General William L. Brandon's assistant adjutant general to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking if men elected to civil office will be discharged from the militia. Enclosed is a copy of a letter that Brandon received from the Confederate War Department on the matter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Major General William T. Martin in Panola County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that an election be ordered for Captain Hodge's battalion of state troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Alfred G. Clark at Atlanta, Georgia, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking to be assigned to duty in a government workshop.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Terence McGowan, an attorney at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the claim of his clients against the Mississippi government.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from A. B. Watts, adjutant of E. A. Peyton's Battalion of Mississippi Cavalry, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the complaint of Amos Davis over his impressed mule.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Sheriff A. Taylor of Wayne County, Mississippi, at Waynesboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the organization of an exempt company for local defense.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Attorney General T. J. Wharton at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the exemption of L. A. Ragsdale from Confederate military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from C. W. Henderson at Marion, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, informing Clark of the organization of exempted men into a local defense company. Henderson lists the names of men elected as the company's officers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Major General Samuel J. Gholson at Tupelo, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the refusal of Captain Wallace's company to serve in Lieutenant Colonel Lowry's regiment.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Major General Samuel J. Gholson at Tupelo, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the reorganization and transfer of state troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copies of two documents, transcribed by a Confederate Major D. Menin. The first document, dated March 31, 1864, is a copy of Circular No. 13 from Colonel John S. Preston, written by Preston's adjutant C. B. Duffield, of the Confederate Bureau of Conscription, ordering all men aged between 17 to 18 and 45 to 50 to be conscripted into the Confederate Army. The second document, dated April 6, 1864, is a copy of a telegram from Preston to Menin, instructing him to order the rendezvous of the reserve and to organize the reserve into companies. (These documents are the enclosed orders mentioned in mdah_768-949-05-31).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Colonel John McGuirk of the Third Mississippi Cavalry at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the service of Brigadier General Christopher Mott in the Mississippi Militia in 1861.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Captain Z. P. Stutts at Philadelphia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting that he has raised a company of mounted men for state service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Major General Peter J. Osterhaus at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning a newspaper notice from former Confederate Army officer Lamar Fontaine that calls for a meeting of citizens in Hinds and Madison Counties, Mississippi, to form an allegedly illegal military organization. Osterhaus asserts that the state is still under military occupation and martial law, and thus no militia organization can be tolerated unless it is under the control of United States Army officers. He assures Sharkey that the troops stationed in Hinds and Madison Counties are sufficient to aid civil authorities in stopping crime, and requests that Sharkey communicate that to Fontaine. (mdah_771-956-05-01, a letter from Sharkey to Osterhaus dated August 22, 1865, is Sharkey's response to this letter).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from W. F. at Houston, Mississippi, to Milton E. Bacon, concerning the raising of a local militia company. The author expresses their desire to see United States Army forces withdrawn from the state, and their hope that raising militias will speed said withdrawal. (Damage to the bottom of the page renders the author's surname illegible).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from George N. Pollan in Choctaw County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for a commission for the militia company he is raising in the county.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Certificate of military election from A. P. Turner and William H. Witty in Choctaw County, Mississippi, concerning the organization of a county militia company. The certificate gives an account of a meeting held at Salem Church to organize said company, and lists the persons whom were elected company officers. The certificate is witnessed by acting justice of peace R. D. Oglesby.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Report by judges in Tippah County, Mississippi, certifying election results for officers in the county militia company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William M. Pollan to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey concerning his efforts to organize a pro-Union militia in Choctaw County, Mississippi. (Including rosters of all the militia in Choctaw County)

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General Jeptha Vining Harris in Columbus, Mississippi, recommending that men in the workshops should be organized and armed for the present emergency.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from W. L. Lowry in Meridian, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to have him released, as the arrest is false.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Captain William K. Easterling asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to bring with him the original orders concerning election of officers for the 6th Mississippi.