From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for the pardon of Nelson Carter who was convicted of attempted rape.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. List of Mississippians exempted from the amnesty proclamation of May 1865 but who were granted special presidential pardon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sheriff W. H. Mangum to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, containing correspondance from General H. W. Slocum regarding the bail of G. N. Jordan, as he is very sick and likely to die.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from William M. Pollan at Greensboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, stating that he and others are not trying to keep a secret organization but that they wish to replace some disloyal office holders in Choctaw County, Mississippi. Attached is a petition from the clerk of the probate court of the county, listing the positions Pollan and his associates wish to replace.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a petition for pardon for Buck Jolly, convicted of larceny.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Henry J. Tibbs to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn requesting a position in Brookhaven, Mississippi, or anywhere in the state, he is looking for means of supporting his family. (Includes a letter dated September 13, 1866, from Assistant Adjutant General Thomas M. Vincent, certifying Tibbs' military service which ended in 1865).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. C. Webber to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn's Private Secretary H. F. Hewson, requesting to know if the Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn has signed three Acts of the Legislature.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Legal document from William S. Patton, including several items stuck together from Lauderdale County, Mississippi, concerning the deposition of W. S. Patton and his statement of how he came to find the bodies of several men of color who had been murdered.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Murray Peyton, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn of the actions of the Senate in the matter of confirming persons appointed to county officer positions by Alcorn. Attached is a list of names of appointees.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Murray Peyton, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn of the actions of the Senate in the matter of confirming persons appointed to county officer positions by Alcorn, and one nominee who was not confirmed. Attached is a list of names of appointees.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Murray Peyton, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn that the Senate had confirmed the accompanying list of county and municipal officer nominations for Harrison and Pike Counties, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Murray Peyton, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, reporting the confirmation by the Senate of county officers for Marshall County, Mississippi, and municipal officers for Holly Springs, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Certificate of loyalty for Charles B. Ames of Macon, Mississippi, stating that he was opposed to secession and never departed from his loyalty to the United States government. The certificate is signed by United States Army Captain W. W. Wheatley, provost marshal.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Special Order No. 14 from Lieutenant Colonel P. Jones York, commanding the post of Port Gibson, Mississippi, revoking the authority of C. B. Clark to patrol roads.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Special Orders No. 7 from United States Army General J. A. Maltby, written by Lieutenant J. T. Gleason, appointing Captain L. C. Hubbard to hold the archives and property of the state of Mississippi. On the reverse, a note by W. A. Gordon, dated June 20, 1865, revokes Maltby's order and, by order of Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, directs Captain J. Warren Miller to resume charge of state property.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. List of charges and specifications by Lieutenant and Provost Marshal T. Horatio Everson, containing charges against William J. Ester for alleged highway robbery of a Charles B. Burwell and alleged larceny of property belonging to a freed African American man named Robert Stokes near Meridian, Mississippi. Included are the names of five witnesses. Attached is a paper with various notes, added in October 1865, by Major W. A. Gordon, Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, and Sharkey's successor Benjamin G. Humphreys. Gordon's note refers Everson's list to Sharkey. Sharkey's notes refer the list to Humphreys, who assumed the governorship on October 16, 1865. Humphreys' note states that Ester will be received by the civil authorities.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from R. Cooper at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning his two sons in the Confederate Army who were indicted in Simpson County, Mississippi, for alleged murder.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letters from Joshua Green and A. MacFarland, both at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, on the same document, concerning the use of enslaved persons as teamsters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Oxford, Mississippi, to Colonel G. S. Blythe, ordering him to collect as many men as he can at Senatobia, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Alfred G. Clark at Atlanta, Georgia, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking to be assigned to duty in a government workshop.

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 Confederate Captain H. B. Deekes at Brookhaven, Mississippi, to an unnamed Major, concerning the alleged misconduct of Captain Pierce, who was raising a company of state troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from T. P. Ware at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting an inquiry into the conduct of Adjutant A. B. Watts in Simpson County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from H. R. Ware at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the arrest of Amos Davis of Simpson County, Mississippi, by Adjutant A. B. Watts.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lieutenant H. B. Sutton and Lieutenant T. W. Smith, both of the 22nd Mississippi Regiment, in Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning deserters from their regiment.