From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Thomas W. Harris, Lieutenant Colonel of Ashcraft's Regiment, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Washington, District of Columbia, requesting his assistance in freeing the Mississippi field officers held at Johnson's Island Prison at Ohio.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the citizens of Calhoun County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus recommending Hiram Horton to command a company of Partisan Rangers.