From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of a captain in the 2nd New Jersey Cavalry, requesting twenty-one days rations to be issued for a detachment of his command. The return is approved by Lieutenant Colonel N. J. Gibson, post commander at Brookhaven, Mississippi, and 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.