From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from Benjamin A. Lee to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting three thousand rations of meat for Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from G. M. Raymond in Natchez, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, urgently requesting rations as the supplies have been exhausted.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. H. Veazie to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting rations for Washington Gray, who was forced from his home in Claiborne County, Mississippi, by the overflow.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. H. Noble Jr. in Wilkinson, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that meat rations are not weighing the same as is being invoiced, and asking for more rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from W. H. Noble Jr. to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting more rations sent to Wilkinson County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from M. B. Sullivan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting on the condition of overflowed land between Beulah, Mississippi, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. H. Harris to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting rations for sufferers along Deer Creek as backwater continues to rise.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Benjamin A. Lee to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that residents of New Town, Mississippi, will starve without immediate assistance.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Document from Thomas C. Sullivan to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, containing invoice of subsistence stores for distribution to sufferers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from G. N. Raymond to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that rations were delivered to Natchez, Mississippi, but that additional rations will be needed soon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. T. Morgan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, acknowledging receipt of rations at Yazoo County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Sheriff of Sunflower County, Mississippi J. D. Ringer to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, listing overflow sufferers in Sunflower County.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from W. A. Taylor in Wilkinson County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting supplies for four overflow victims that Taylor has taken in near Fort Adams, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from B. K. Bruce to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that back waters are rising and the number of sufferers is increasing in Bolivar County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles Clark to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, acknowledging his appointment to the overflow relief committee and informing Ames of the overflow conditions near Beulah, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William Muller in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting rations after previous letters to Judge Jeffords and Lieutenant Governor Alexander Davis have gone unanswered.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Charles Clark to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, stating that early estimates of the overflow were low and that water levels are rising in the area of Beulah, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Thomas C. Sullivan in New Orleans, Louisiana to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, stating that the War Department has fixed the daily issue of rations for Mississippi at 12,000 a day.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from G. M. Raymond to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting additional supplies to Natchez, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from A. V. Waddell to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing Ames that the water is beginning to recede in Coahoma and Tunica Counties, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter to B. M. Sullivan and Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, detailing destitute condition of residents near the levee break at Carson's Landing.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Lewis S. Lobdell, M. E. Newman and Ben Franklin to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis and Senator B. K. Bruce, requesting for supplies for 300 people to be sent to Catfish Point in Bolivar County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Telegram from J. N. Brown to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, informing the Governor that the levee broke at Tunica, Mississippi and Coahoma, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from H. P. Scott to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for twenty rations to be shipped to Halls Landing, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from H. P. Scott to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting additional rations for overflow victims in Issaquena County, Mississippi.