From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Walter Scruggs to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting return of property seized during the war.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from C. P. Westbrooks to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, inquiring if there is government land available to be purchased as well as location and cost.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles W. Clarke in Greensville, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting allegations of improperly withheld funds from the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document from Joshua Stevens, containing an account of the education expenditures of Noxubee County, Mississippi. It was notarized by the chancery clerk.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. T. Morgan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing movements of armed "white leagues" and their participation in racial violence.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from F. Heiderhoff in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for pardon of William Dunbridge, convicted of assault and battery. Pardon attached.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. F. Frueauff in Pennsylvania to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting a state seal of authentication on a power of attorney document.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from former Florida Governor James E. Broome to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a business proposition concerning overflowing lands.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Colonel Samuel Thomas of the Freedmen's Bureau to General H. W. Slocum, commander of the department of Mississippi, concerning the case of J. D. Collier, whose lease of an abandoned land is being challenged by the previous owner. (Document is related to mdah_776-960-01-09.)

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Ewing Cowan in Shieldsborough, Mississippi (now Bay St. Louis, Mississippi) to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames that Cowan has not been able to acquire a property.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from T. M. Harris to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, requesting the remission of forfeiture in the case of twenty-three African American men in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. L. Dugan in Ripley, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning treasury matters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Treasurer of Lowndes County, Mississippi A. Stewart to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing financial statement of Lowndes County.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter, accompanying requisition for the arrest and return of George Crutcher to Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from A. B. Evans and R. P. Willing to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting remittance of forfeiture against A. B. Evans. Included is a secretarial note indicating the remittance was granted on February 25.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Catalog entitled "Catalogue of the Library of the State of Mississippi" listing the holdings of the Mississippi State Library as of January 1865. The catalog contains alphabetized lists of legal reports from various states, elementary and miscellaneous law texts, legal codes, governmental documents from the United States and the individual states, and historical and literary texts. (This document is the enclosed catalog mentioned in mdah_768-950-05-05).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from United States Army Colonel Samuel Thomas of the Freedmen's Bureau at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to J. D. Collier, informing Collier that his rights as lessee of an abandoned plantation will be protected by Thomas and his men. (Document is related to mdah_776-960-01-16).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, to Major General Henry W. Slocum, concerning a legal case in Warren County, Mississippi, in which a plantation owner sued to regain his leased property. A Colonel Thomas allegedly arrested one of the justices of the peace who tried the case after judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff. Sharkey regards Thomas's actions as unbecoming, and he asks Slocum to "furnish the [Warren County] sheriff with sufficient military force" to execute the court's judgment. Also included is a hand-transcribed copy of Sharkey's letter to Slocum (possibly transcribed by a member of either Sharkey or Slocum's staff).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Sheriff E. C. Eggleston of Lowndes County, Mississippi, at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning a mule wrongfully impressed by the 6th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment.

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 W. M. Haley at Gallatin, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning the organization of Colonel Blythe's command.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from L. Julienne at Jackson, Mississippi, to an unnamed "friend", discussing personal matters and describing his views on life in occupied Natchez, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letters from R. W. Edmundson at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning his proposition to supply the state with wool and cotton cards.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Clarissa Young at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, reiterating her requests first stated in her letter of July 28, 1865, asking Sharkey for advice in removing African American persons from her property, whom Young claims have been antagonizing her. Young also asks for assistance in reclaiming property that the government had previously seized with the claim that it was for a hospital at Grand Gulf, Mississippi. She believes that her first letter did not reach Sharkey. (The letter to which Young refers is mdah_771-955-07-34).