From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking Ames to appeal to have Ham Carter removed as deputy revenue collector.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking Ames if he can draw northern attention to land theft in Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter, asking if anything can be done to end the reign of the white league in an unnamed town.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from several citizens of Caroll County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for the pardon of James Jordan who was convicted of robbery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. T. Morgan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing movements of armed "white leagues" and their participation in racial violence.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from M. Butt Hewson to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting copies of two documents concerning John M. Powell.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from W. H. DeRochemont to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames for pardon of Richard Gillum, convicted of forgery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from George Rodgers in Chicago, Illinois to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, including a business proposal for plantations worked by Chinese laborers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Petition from several citizens to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, in support of the appointment of O. H. Whitfield to the office of chancellor of the Monroe County, Mississippi, chancery district. In the letter the petitioners state they were formerly O. H. Whitfield's enslaved persons. They claim to have known him from his childhood and that, since they have been freed, he has done all he can to help secure their rights.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. C. Webber to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn's Private Secretary H. F. Hewson, requesting to know if the Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn has signed three Acts of the Legislature.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from A. P. Miller in Rankin County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, writing on behalf of Thomas Easom, a freed person whom Miller formerly held as an enslaved person. According to Miller's letter, Easom is seeking a pardon for his son, a United States Army veteran who was convicted of larceny and sentenced to four years incarceration. Miller asks for clemency for Easom's son, whom Miller characterizes as "young and ignorant" when convicted. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, private secretary to Alcorn, giving an executive summary of Miller's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from W. H. Fitz-Gerald at Charleston, Mississippi, to P. B. Starke, recounting the case of an African American man named Henry White who was convicted of rape in May 1867. Fitz-Gerald claims that White and the woman whom he was charged with raping had previously had consensual intercourse except for the night in question, where he forced himself upon her against her will. Fitz-Gerald states that although White is legally guilty, Fitz-Gerald believes that there were "extenuating circumstances" and that the sentence imposed was too great.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. W. Keyes at Carrollton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, offering suggestions as to how the state militia should be organized.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from Sarah Garrett at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that she be pardoned for her crime of allowing enslaved persons to trade as freemen.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Robert Kells, superintendent of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning Kells' efforts to obtain a pass to go to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to obtain supplies.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Printed Special Orders No. 16 from Assistant Adjutant General J. Warren Miller, by order of Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, concerning the reinstatement of municipal authorities in Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that Burwell Jones be pardoned for selling spirituous liquors of less than one gallon to an enslaved person.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Incomplete letter from Confederate Captain A. Q. Withers, commander of a company of state troops at Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that his troops remain in Marshall County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens and civil officers of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that the local militia be returned so they can grow crops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens and civil officers of Attala County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, seeking a pardon for a man convicted of selling liquor without a license.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from P. K. Montgomery at Fayette, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, urging Clark to run for reelection as governor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from T. E. B. Pegues at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that the local militia not be called up as they are needed at home.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Affidavit and appeal from Lucinda Cantrill and Mary Jane Smyth, arrested for burglary and larceny, at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, stating under oath that they are not guilty and asking that they be released from jail in Lowndes County, Mississippi. The affidavit is sworn before and witnessed by Stephen A. Brown, probate judge and justice of the peace.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from the citizens of Madison County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting a pardon for Thomas Shackleford, convicted of allowing his enslaved person to live at another residence in Canton, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Letter from James A. Lyons to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark making recommendations as to changes that should be made to the system of slavery in the state.