From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from George Rodgers in Chicago, Illinois to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, including a business proposal for plantations worked by Chinese laborers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from M. Howard to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, containing a list of sufferers from the overflow.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Two letters and a sworn statement from C. M. Thomas, W. A. M. Hemy, and A. J. Shipman to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, concerning an escapee from the jail of Noxubee County, Mississippi. Thomas writes to say that he had investigated the incident which was first reported as having been an abduction of a prisoner with the "help" of the guards on duty by masked men; however Thomas says that this was false and the prisoner escaped from the jail by jumping out of a window. Additional correspondance details the other accounts of the incident.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from United States Army Colonel Samuel Thomas of the Freedmen's Bureau at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to J. D. Collier, informing Collier that his rights as lessee of an abandoned plantation will be protected by Thomas and his men. (Document is related to mdah_776-960-01-16).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mary A. Christian at Forrest, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the impressment of her overseer into the Mississippi militia.

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 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 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 letter from F. S. Blount at Jackson, Mississippi, to John Cowden, asking for help to obtain enslaved laborers to build fortifications at Mobile, Alabama. (This document is the enclosed copy of an order mentioned in mdah_768-949-03-33).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sharkey Matilda at Brownsville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for Sharkey's aid in obtaining compensation for the damage allegedly done to her property by the United States Army. Included is a list of the property damaged.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Letter from Captain W.E. Montgomery of the Herndon Rangers to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark concerning raids being made by armed negroes led by Milford Coe.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from F. H. Cox, a member of Company A, 1st Mississippi Regiment, State Troops, in Grenada, Mississippi, asking for a leave of absence as his sister just died.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from John C. Humphries in Port Gibson, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus he can get no volunteer overseers to go to Port Hudson, Louisiana with the African Americans.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from A. G. Brown in Richmond, Virginia, asking that Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus not draft his overseer, Robert A. Harrison of Terry, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition to Captain Webb asking that Jefferson Scott be discharged from the 33rd Mississippi Infantry to come home and manage his dying mother's estate.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from from the citizens of Lowndes County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking the Governor to leave at least one white man on each plantation in the county.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Rachel Kirkwood in Carroll County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking to have her overseer, J. B. Farmer, discharged from the state militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. H. Hicks to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking an exemption from service in the state militia for A. U. Stephen.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. H. Hicks to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking an exemption from service in the state militia for Alexander Newman.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. A. Orr at Gainesville, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking to pay the $500 exemption fee to keep his overseer out of the military.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from G. D. Moore at Noxubee County, Mississippi,to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for the exemption of his brother, J. G. Moore, from conscription.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. Easterling at Paulding, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting permission to raise a company of cavalry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter by a man with the first name of Joseph to his brother Dudley, seeking to get a discharge from the military.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Certification from William Graham that Joseph G. Moore of Newton County, Mississippi, was the guardian of two children, and administrator of the estate of W. W. Moore.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. R. Clark at the Office of Conscription at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning Mississippians drafted into the Confederate Army that belong in the militia.