From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. E. Aden to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking if a reward is offered for a "Forrest" who is wanted for killing a man in Aberdeen, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from J. J. Gainey to L. M. Hall, chief of the Mississippi Secret Service, describing how he got a young Mr. Woods to confess to being a member of "the three K's" and to being involved in shooting up a widow's home, and the murder of another African American man during said incident. Gainey states that he is enclosing affidavits of witnesses to the confession. (Enclosed affidavits not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Tupelo, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, asking Clark to order all available state troops to Tupelo, Mississippi, to meet the United States Army and stating that Pine Bluff, Arkansas, and Little Rock, Arkansas, were reportedly in the possession of the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Sheriff C. E. Morgan of Washington County, Mississippi, to O. H. Crandall, acknowledging receipt of the telegram from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Justice of the Peace Eugene Nordmann referencing prisoner Edward Rogers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Sheriff C. E. Morgan of Washington County, Mississippi, to Lieutenant William Atwood, forwarding the original correspondence from Eugene Nordmann, justice of the peace of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Eugene Nordmann, justice of the peace in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to Sheriff C. E. Morgan of Washington County, Mississippi, requesting immediate retrieval and claim of reward for prisoner Edward Rogers, held for murder of William Copeland.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. J. Gainey, agent of the Mississippi Secret Service, to L. M. Hall describing his investigation into attacks made by the Ku Klux Klan against African Americans in Lafayette County, Mississippi, including the confession of one of the Klansmen revealing the names of the perpetrators.