From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from E. Jeffords to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, detailing the distribution of rations in Issaquena County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from P. B. Starke, Thos. W. Stinger, and T. J. Mitchell, members of a committee appointed to assess the affairs of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, containing the results of the committee's investigation into the condition of the penitentiary - including plantations leased by the penitentiary where some convicted persons, mostly African Americans, are made to perform labor - and its inmates. There are several pages of information concerning some inmates needing medical attention, some inmates whom the committee believed were improperly convicted, and recommended pardons or commutations of sentences. Appended are additional "special reports" concerning particular cases and persons.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from B. F. Evans at Waynesboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, endorsing Clark's effort to call public officials into Confederate military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from A. E. Pyres at Hankinson's Ferry, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for help for the planters living between Big Black River and Bayou Pierre, Mississippi, whom Pyres claims "lost everything" in the Civil War.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. C. Saffold at Raleigh, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning discontent caused by the Exemption Law.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. Willoughby at Columbia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus complaining about the prices being charged by Jewish store owners in Marion County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Melancthan Smith at Columbus, Kentucky to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting winter uniforms for the men of his battery (Smith-Turner's Mississippi battery).