From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles W. Clarke to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting receipt and distribution of overflow rations for Washington County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from M. B. Sullivan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting on the condition of overflowed land between Beulah, Mississippi, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from R. J. Martin to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting aid and giving a list of names of those impacted by the overflow at Carson's Landing, Mississippi.

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 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 George Fletcher, an African American man in Washington County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, expressing his concern with the ability of African American people to make a living off the land when they are being charged $10 for an acre or two for rent. Fletcher asks Alcorn if he could make some arrangement for relief.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Order No. 1 from Colonel and Provost Marshal William E. Bayley taking command of the Militia of Bolivar County, Mississippi, and requiring all planters to make contracts with their workers.