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 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. Letter from T. A. Mitchell, the president of the Board of Police of Pontotoc, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting salt for impoverished families of Confederate soldiers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to Captain W. E. Montgomery, commander of the Herndon Rangers (Mississippi Militia, Cavalry Battalion, Second Reserves), giving him authority to move his command and impress items needed for his company. Clark also orders Montgomery to arrest anyone who gives away his unit's movements to the United States Army as spies, and gives him instructions on protecting local plantations, imprisoning African Americans, and dealing with Confederate Army deserters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Haden Leavel at Benton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if there is any truth to a rumor about an order from United States President Andrew Johnson. The rumor purports that citizens of South Carolina will be compensated for the financial value of property taken by the federal government. The rumored order, Leavel heard, would include compensation to former slaveholders, as they considered enslaved persons as "property".

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Captain W. E. Montgomery in Bolivar County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the capture of the steamer Allen Collier by his command, the Herndon Rangers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from General J. Z. George at Senatobia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus submitting a report on the operations of his command in the last ten days.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Richard T. Archer in Claiborne County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining of local citizens stealing his stock and asking for help from the state.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. H. Hicks and George Torrey in Fayette, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting that a cavalry force be sent to Jefferson and Claiborne Counties, Mississippi, to stop United States Army raiding.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from D. W. Johnston, an officer in the Hancock County, Mississippi, militia at Gainesville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a raid in the county by the 128th New York Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from O. Davis at Ripley, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing him that Colonel John H. Miller was killed at Ripley by United States Army Colonel Fielding Hurst's men.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Howard W. Wilkinson at Pearlington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning deserters hiding out on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from L. J. McCormick in Lauderdale Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus stating the South will be punished for the wrongs it had done him.