From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Taylor at Selma, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning his plans to combat United States Army operations in Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from H. W. Purnell at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning the upcoming election of a president for the University of Mississippi.