From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Consolidated ration return of Lieutenant Colonel Henry C. Merriam, 73rd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for a detachment of his command at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Consolidated ration return of Colonel H. C. Merriam, 73rd United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for men of his command at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.