From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Major Charles Mann, 1st Missouri Light Artillery, requesting rations to be issued for government employees on the Southern Military Railroad at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Assistant Adjutant General W. A. Gordon, by order of Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Major Charles Mann, 1st Missouri Light Artillery, requesting rations to be issued for employees on the Southern Military Railroad. The return is approved by Captain and Assistant Adjutant General J. Warren Miller, by order of Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.