From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William C. Vernon Hicks, an assistant surgeon in the United States Army post hospital at Huntsville, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, seeking a job with the state government of Mississippi. Hicks's service in the United States Army has earned him support from Major General William Tecumseh Sherman.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Reuben Davis at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for an exemption from militia duty for Phillip J. McNairy.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John M. Jones, Jr. concerning a gun that he wants shipped to Memphis, Tennessee.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. A. P. Jones in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the extradition of Thomas I. Stewart from Alabama.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. A. P. Jones in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning an indictment against Thomas Stewart.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. E. Taliaferro in Viola, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting extradition of a man named Mooney from Alabama for murdering an enslaved person.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William Echols in Huntsville, Alabama, to his son advising him to give his brother Larkin a job.