From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. H. Veazie to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting rations for Washington Gray, who was forced from his home in Claiborne County, Mississippi, by the overflow.

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 Benjamin A. Lee to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that residents of New Town, Mississippi, will starve without immediate assistance.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Duncan and Mason to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting aid for 300 formerly enslaved people at Canty Plantation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John M. Burke to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting an amendment to a lien law.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn to both the House of Representatives and the Senate covering numerous topics.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from several citizens of Chickasaw County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning outrages allegedly commited by United States Colored Troops stationed in their community.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens of Noxubee County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, protesting against the impressment of their mules for government service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Tax in kind document showing how much produce Mississippi Governor Charles Clark has paid as his part of the tax.

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 W. M. Haley at Gallatin, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning the organization of Colonel Blythe's command.

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 J. Alex Ventress near Woodville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, complaining about Clark's order to destroy cotton in Wilkinson County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Two copies of a letter from D. S. Pattison at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the settling of his accounts as salt agent for the state.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. M. Smith, an attorney at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning a legal case involving a white person who alleged that a freedman stole his mule.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from R. C. Webb in Lafayette County, Mississippi, to United States President Andrew Johnson, asking for a pardon and enclosing a letter from R. C. Webb's brother to Johnson, advocating on his behalf. The enclosed letter from William H. Webb at Cincinnati, Ohio, to Johnson, dated September 16, 1865, endorses R. C. Webb's petition and speaks to his loyalty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Nine copies of a printed circular from the Supervising Special Agent William W. Orme of the United States Treasury Department at Memphis, Tennessee, concerning the gathering and control of captured or surrendered cotton in Mississippi and Arkansas.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sheriff A. O. Cox of Lawrence County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking questions about the cotton tax.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from A. E. Pyres at Hankinson's Ferry, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for help for the planters living between Big Black River and Bayou Pierre, Mississippi, whom Pyres claims "lost everything" in the Civil War.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from Lambert Moore, a formerly enslaved person, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey protesting having to pay taxes on money earned while he was an enslaved person.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William J. Keller, tax assessor of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, giving his report on the collection of taxes in Wilkinson County.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William W. Orme, a special agent of the United States Treasury Department at Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, enclosing copies of a circular announcing he had assumed control of the gathering of Confederate cotton. (Enclosed copies of circular not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from the firm of Smith and Sturgis at Crystal Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the valuation of their cotton be reduced for tax purposes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from John McRae, tax assessor of Kemper County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking about tax exemptions.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Needham Whitfield at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning his pardon application to President Andrew Johnson.