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Letter from John T. Shaff to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 22, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from John T. Shaff from the Office of the Chief Commissary for the 4th District of Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark asking if his employees are exempt from the draft.
Letter from Anderson Rutland to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn; January 29, 1871
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Anderson Rutland to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, recounting the events of how he was first imprisoned during the Civil War for horse theft and how he came to be released, only to be rearrested. He is asking Alcorn to review his case to see if his second arrest was legal in hopes that Alcorn would order his release.
Petition to M. Brown and L. J. Fleming; 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, to Milton Brown, president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and L. J. Fleming, superintendent of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, asking that corn be transported to the starving families of their county.
Letter from John K. Hardy to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; November 20, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from John K. Hardy at Louisville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the use of Confederate deserters in Captain D. M. Wilson's company of state militia.
Incomplete letter between Thos. M. Jack, Jas. B. Cumming, and Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; 1864 and 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Incomplete letter with multiple notes concerning charges to be brought against unnamed soldiers in the Army of Mississippi. The first note, dated July 9, 1864, is by Thos. M. Jack on behalf of Confederate General Alexander P. Stewart. The second note, dated January 12, 1865, is by Jas. B. Cumming on behalf of General John B. Hood, and refers the letter to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark. The third note, dated January 19, 1865, is by Clark and returns the letter. The fourth note, dated April 6, 1865, is by Cumming on behalf of General Joseph E. Johnston and returns the letter with attention to Clark's prior note.
Letter from Captain W. S. Yerger to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; March 9, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Captain W. S. Yerger at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, offering suggestions on how to raise a battalion of cavalry for Confederate service.
Letter from Assistant Surgeon S. J. Terry to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; March 4, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from S. J. Terry, Assistant Surgeon of Perrin's regiment of Mississippi Cavalry at Mount Milling, South Carolina, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking for an exemption from military service because of poor health.
Letter from Robert Kells to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; November 22, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Robert Kells, superintendent of the Mississippi Lunatic Asylum, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning furloughs from the state militia for asylum workers.
Letter from Robert Kells to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; October 15, 1864
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, protesting that his workers are being conscripted into the Mississippi Militia.
Letter from General William L. Brandon to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; October 13, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Brigadier General William L. Brandon at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the retention of men from the reserve corps in the Mississippi Militia.
Letter from S. J. Terry; September 11, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from S. J. Terry, concerning his enlistment in Perrin's regiment of Mississippi Cavalry.
Letter from North Carolina Governor Zebulon B. Vance to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; September 23, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from North Carolina Governor Zebulon B. Vance at Raleigh, North Carolina, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Jackson, Mississippi, concerning the need to send more men to the armies of Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and John B. Hood.
Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark to General Dabney H. Maury; August 15, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to Confederate Major General Dabney H. Maury, concerning the parole status of state troops captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Letter from General Dabney H. Maury to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 14, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Major General Dabney H. Maury at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting reinforcements for Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest to stop a United States Army movement down the Mississippi Central Railroad.
Letter from A. S. Humphries to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; August 22, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from A. S. Humphries at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, listing the men he has conscripted and sent to Macon, Mississippi.
Copy of Special Orders from Charles W. Anderson to Colonel G. S. Blythe; August 17, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of Special Orders from Charles W. Anderson, by command of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest, at Oxford, Mississippi, to Colonel G. S. Blythe, ordering him to report to Colonel T. W. Whitt.
Letter from Z. A. Philips to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; July 31, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi salt agent Z. A. Philips at the Mississippi State Salt Works to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the effort to have his workers exempted from the draft.
Application of S. J. Harper; August 4, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Application of S. J. Harper of Stubb's Cavalry Battalion, in Simpson County, Mississippi, to be detailed as a blacksmith.
Letter from W. Yerger to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; June 10, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from W. Yerger at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning Lieutenant J. C. Winn's application to organize Deputy Sheriffs into a company to act as a police guard for the county.
Letter from Robert S. Hudson to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; June 13, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Robert S. Hudson at Edinburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning his proposal to force county officials to aid in arresting alleged Confederate Army deserters.
Letter from Mississippi Attorney General T. J. Wharton to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; May 30, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Attorney General T. J. Wharton at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the exemption of L. A. Ragsdale from Confederate military service.
Letter from B. C. Duckworth to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; June 14, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from B. C. Duckworth at Ellisville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning supposed problems being caused by alleged Confederate deserters in Jones County, Mississippi.
Letter from W. A. P. Jones to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; May 5, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Probate Clerk W. A. P. Jones at Elyton, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, seeking an exemption from duty in the Mississippi militia as he is a probate clerk of Marshall County, Mississippi.
Letter from Judge Robert S. Hudson to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; May 2, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Fifth Judicial District Judge Robert S. Hudson in Leake County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, complaining that county sheriffs were not arresting alleged Confederate deserters.
Letter from Bob C. Miller to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; May 13, 1864
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Bob C. Miller at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting that Clark exempt a number of men from being conscripted into the Mississippi Militia.