From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips at the Mississippi Salt Works to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the efforts of government officials to impress his enslaved labor force.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips, Mississippi state salt agent, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, informing Clark of affairs at the state salt works, concerning the impressment of enslaved workers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Legal documents from J. W. Scarborough to Confederate Brigadier General A. M. West, concerning property impressed by the state of Mississippi from J. B. Ellington.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Sworn statement from Green T. Hill and J. F. Brown to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, as to the value of a mule impressed from R. A. Caruthers for use by the Confederate military. E. C. Eggleston, sheriff of Lowndes County, has signed the statement.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips at the Mississippi state salt works to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, complaining that impressing agents were allegedly attempting to take the workers at the facility.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of an order from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, authorizing a Captain Lucas to impress horses and mules, dated July 11, 1864. There are two subsequent notes on the page dated July 12, 1864, and July 14, 1864, respectively. The first, by Lucas, certifies that Lucas has impressed a mule from Wm. Dent. The second, by Dent, acknowledges receipt of a requisition on the Mississippi State Auditor for $700, the appraised value of Dent's mule.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of an order from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, authorizing a Captain Lucas to impress horses and mules, dated July 11, 1864. There are two subsequent notes on the page dated July 12, 1864, and July 19, 1864, respectively. The first, by Lucas, certifies that Lucas has impressed a horse from T. P. Barton. The second, by attorney E. Dismukes, acknowledges receipt of a requisition on the Mississippi State Auditor for $1,500, the appraised value of Barton's horse.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Terence McGowan, an attorney at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the claim of his clients against the Mississippi government.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from the office of Chief Impressment Agent F. S. Blount at Mobile, Alabama, concerning the impressment of enslaved persons to work in the city.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. S. Avent at the office of the Chief Agent of Impressment at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning the regulations regarding the impressment of enslaved persons. (Avent states he is attaching a copy of said regulations, but the document is not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark to Mississippi Militia Brigadier General A. M. West, ordering him to impress wagons, teams, and drivers to remove government stores from Macon, Mississippi. West forwarded the letter to Major J. M. Haynes in Macon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Chief Impressment Agent F. S. Blount, at Mobile, Alabama, to A. S. Livermore, superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad at Grenada, Mississippi, concerning the impressment of twenty enslaved persons to work on the railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. S. Blount, Chief Agent of Impressment at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, addressing how long they can keep the enslaved persons impressed to work on the railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. S. Blount, Chief Agent of Impressment at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, informing Clark that enslaved persons will be impressed to work on the railroad in north Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. S. Blount, Chief Agent of Impressment at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning the use of county sheriffs to act as impressment agents.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Sheriff E. M. Devall at Ellisville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, explaining that taxes in Jones County, Mississippi, have not been collected because of alleged threats from Confederate Army deserters who are operating as anti-Confederate guerrillas. Devall alleges that they ambushed and killed two men who were collecting stock in the county.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from A. S. Livermore, superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad at Grenada, Mississippi, to Chief Impressment Agent F. S. Blount at Mobile, Alabama, regarding Blount's plan to impress enslaved persons to work to repair the railroad. Livermore complains about twenty day terms of impressment and states that railroad work requires persons who understand the business. He suggests impressing persons from Yalobusha, Tallahatchie, and Panola counties, Mississippi, for terms of no less than three months.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of a telegram from A. S. Livermore, superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad at Grenada, Mississippi, to Chief Impressment Agent F. S. Blount at Mobile, Alabama, stating that L. R. Wilson refused to conduct impressment and asking what arrangements can be made.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Certificate from D. A. Watson of Lafayette County, Mississippi, stating that J. H. Alexander was authorized as his agent for any monies received from the state as compensation for a horse impressed for state service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. S. Blount at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning the plan to bring in enslaved persons from Mississippi to work on the defenses of Mobile, Alabama. Blount states that he is enclosing a copy of an order to John Cowden. (The enclosed document that Blount mentions is mdah_768-949-03-27).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. One certificate, dated January 23, 1864, and one note, dated February 9, 1864, from William A. Cotton of Yalobusha County, Mississippi, regarding a horse owned by Cotton that had been impressed by J. W. McMartin. In the certificate, Cotton authorizes Benjamin Williams to be his legal agent receive the claim on his horse. Also included is a note from J. W. McMartin, dated May 19, 1863, confirming that he impressed Cotton's horse and providing an appraisal of the horse's monetary value.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Certificate from Solomon Griffin in Kemper County, Mississippi, authorizing Elisha Coleman to be his legal agent to obtain payment for an impressed horse. The certificate is witnessed by James Hull, clerk of the Kemper County circuit court.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to W. C. Watson, giving his agent his thoughts on cotton and wool cards, use of state troops, foreigners in the military, impressed enslaved persons, military supplies, and soldiers fit for service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Contract between the firm of Baskerville, Whitfield, and Company at Columbus, Mississippi, and Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, to supply 28,000 cotton cards to the state of Mississippi, in exchange for shipping cotton along the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. (This document is a revised copy of mdah_768-949-02-13. It includes some variations from the earlier contract).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Contract between the firm of Baskerville, Whitfield, and Company at Columbus, Mississippi, and Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, to supply 30,000 cotton cards to the state of Mississippi, in exchange for shipping cotton along the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. (mdah_768-949-02-14 is a revised copy of this contract. It includes some variations).