From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Contract between the firm of Baskerville, Whitfield, and Company at Columbus, Mississippi, and Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, to supply 30,000 cotton cards to the state of Mississippi, in exchange for shipping cotton along the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. (mdah_768-949-02-14 is a revised copy of this contract. It includes some variations).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Martha Craigan to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Oxford, Mississippi, complaining about the burning of her cotton and impressment of her wagons and teams by the Confederate Army. (mdah_768-949-01-15 is a response to this document).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sharkey Matilda at Brownsville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for Sharkey's aid in obtaining compensation for the damage allegedly done to her property by the United States Army. Included is a list of the property damaged.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William Rhode in Holly Springs, Mississippi requesting that the governor deny a pardon to to C. Wilson, convicted of burning a cotton gin.