From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from United States Army Captain J. P. Schooley of the 66th United States Colored Infantry at Jackson, Mississippi, to Captain J. Warren Miller, concerning the request by Colonel Zeigler of the 52nd United States Colored Infantry for fresh beef.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Captain Charles W. Kirkland, Company A, 66th United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for a detachment of his command sent from Big Black, Mississippi, as guards for a supply train. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.