From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips, the general salt agent for Mississippi, to B. M. Woolsey, salt commissioner for Alabama, concerning the mining of salt in Alabama for the people of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Publication titled Salt from the Onondaga Salt Company to the editor of the New York World.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Robert J. Hill, president of the Board of Police of Tippah County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning a shipment of salt.

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. 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. 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. Letter from Mississippi State Geologist E. W. Hilgard at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on the work of the state geological survey.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Z. A. Philips, salt agent for the state of Mississippi, at Meridian, Mississippi, to Captain J. W. Miller at Jackson, Mississippi, giving a report of the work of the agency during the war. The salt works, located above Mobile, Alabama, on the west side of the Tombigbee River, has made an appropriation in manufacturing salt for indigent families. The white and African-American men employed at the works have all returned home, except for two white men. Transportation of salt will be required by boat on the Tombigbee River and the railroad. Philips also requests to disperse a sufficient amount of salt to pay off the debt of the works.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. C. Turner at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning "Mr. Norman's" inability to meet his contract for salt because of poor health and United States Army raids.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. C. Turner at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning his duties as salt agent for the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Eph. Wells at the Norton Salt Works in Alabama to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, offering to ship salt to Mississippi if the state will pay for the equipment he needs.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. C. Turner at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking exemptions from military service for the employees in his salt business.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Grafton Baker at Enterprise, Mississippi,to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a contract to produce salt for the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Affidavit from the Firm of I. N. Vaughan and Company, attesting to the fact that they are engaged in making salt in Washington County, Alabama.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. M. Vaiden at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning a failed attempt to drill for salt water in Alabama.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. M. Vaiden at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning an investigation into the state of Mississippi buying a salt works in Alabama.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Ozias Osburn Crystal Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the efforts of a Mr. Jacobs to extract salt from the dirt.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Julia M. Spencer in Terry Station, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that her husband Gilbert Spencer be detailed from his regiment because of sickness.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John H. Lenow in Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a small salt works near that city.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Confederate Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, informing Clark that the governor's wishes regarding the hands working at the state salt mine would be complied with.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from chief salt agent F. S. Blount at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, informing Clark that he ordered the release of the hands working at the state salt works in Washington County, Mississippi.