From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Samuel H. Lockett at Marion, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, applying for a job as professor at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. R. Jones at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting an appointment as regimental chaplain.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. C. McPhail in Fayette, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning employment opportunities with the state of Mississippi.