From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. List of district and local enrolling officers on conscription duty in the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from William L. Patton at Marion, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning Mr. Ross, a deputy sheriff who was being conscripted into the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Charles A. Lewers and M. D. L. Stephens at Pittsboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that no more than 20 men at a time be called for militia duty so that the rest can raise their crops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from S. J. Terry, Assistant Surgeon of Perrin's regiment of Mississippi Cavalry at Mount Milling, South Carolina, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking for an exemption from military service because of poor health.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Brigadier General William L. Brandon's assistant adjutant general to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking if men elected to civil office will be discharged from the militia. Enclosed is a copy of a letter that Brandon received from the Confederate War Department on the matter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Incomplete printed circular sent by Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to the various county sheriffs in the state, announcing his proclamation of amnesty for alleged deserters if they serve in the Confederate Army for thirty days. (Circular is damaged).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Statement from H. E. Lee, clerk of the probate court of Perry County, Mississippi, and A. B. McLemore to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, that McLemore was elected ranger of the county and requesting an exemption from Confederate Army service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Robert Kells, superintendent of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, protesting that his workers are being conscripted into the Mississippi Militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Annual report from H. Hobbs to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark on the operations of the Mississippi Lunatic Asylum. Also included is a letter dated October 6, 1864, from Dr. Robert Kells, superintendent of the asylum, explaining supplies needed by the asylum and asylum employees whom he requests to be exempt from conscription.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from M. N. Casky, the chaplain of Wood's company of the 2nd Battalion Mississippi Cavalry at Beaties's Bluff, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on rich men who are evading the draft.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from W. P. Harris at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the new conscription law.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from George J. Mortimer at Crystal Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, introducing Colonel Willing, a citizen of Copiah County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from A. S. Humphries at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, listing the men he has conscripted and sent to Macon, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi salt agent Z. A. Philips at the Mississippi State Salt Works to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the effort to have his workers exempted from the draft.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Application of S. J. Harper of Stubb's Cavalry Battalion, in Simpson County, Mississippi, to be detailed as a blacksmith.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mayor D. N. Barrows of Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, seeking to have the city sexton exempted from conscription under provisions in Clark's proclamation that exempt municipal officers. Barrows explains the sexton's duties and he asserts that the city sexton is an indispensible elected official who is entitled to the same privileges as other municipal officers. He asks Clark to give his opinion on whether the sexton thus qualifies for exemption.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from John S. Preston of the Confederate Bureau of Conscription in Richmond, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning who is to be exempted from conscription into the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from George W. Shelton and A. G. Mayers at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking which Justice of the Peace in Rankin County, Mississippi, should be exempted from military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Militia Captain Z. P. Stutts at Philadelphia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, alleging that there is a secret organization in Bankston, Mississippi, to keep men from fighting in the Civil War.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from B. C. Duckworth at Ellisville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning supposed problems being caused by alleged Confederate deserters in Jones County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Probate Clerk W. A. P. Jones at Elyton, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, seeking an exemption from duty in the Mississippi militia as he is a probate clerk of Marshall County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from R. S. Hudson at Edinburg, Mississippi, to W. H. Mangum, stating that he believes it is too dangerous to hold the ensuing term of the Yazoo County, Mississippi, court, and discussing several personal and political matters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from L. D. Burton at Richmond, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, reporting on the Itawamba County, Mississippi, sheriff's newly-appointed deputies and outlining the steps that the sheriff and others have taken to arrest Confederate military deserters, alleged robbers, and Unionists.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Major D. Menin at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, enclosing copies of orders that Menin received from Colonel John Preston concerning where to send new conscripts. (Enclosed copies are mdah_768-949-05-16).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copies of two documents, transcribed by a Confederate Major D. Menin. The first document, dated March 31, 1864, is a copy of Circular No. 13 from Colonel John S. Preston, written by Preston's adjutant C. B. Duffield, of the Confederate Bureau of Conscription, ordering all men aged between 17 to 18 and 45 to 50 to be conscripted into the Confederate Army. The second document, dated April 6, 1864, is a copy of a telegram from Preston to Menin, instructing him to order the rendezvous of the reserve and to organize the reserve into companies. (These documents are the enclosed orders mentioned in mdah_768-949-05-31).