From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. J. Smylie at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, offering to supply the state with 40,000 cotton and wool cards in exchange for $100,000 and shipping cotton to New Orleans, Louisiana, en route to Europe.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of a surgeon of the 50th United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for use by nurses and patients at the post hospital in Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Captain Samuel A. Reed, by order of Colonel Charles A. Gilchrist, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Assistant Surgeon E. C. Deforrest, requesting rations to be issued for the post hospital at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of H. C. Huntsman, surgeon of the 50th United States Colored Infantry, requesting five days rations to be issued for use in the regimental hospital. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, the post commander, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Surgeon E. C. DeForrest, requesting eleven days rations to be issued for the United States Army post hospital at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Assistant Surgeon W. F. Fisher, 50th United States Colored Infantry, requesting five days rations to be issued for twelve men at the regimental hospital. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, the post commander, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Assistant Surgeon W. F. Fisher, 50th United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for the regimental hospital at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Assistant Surgeon W. F. Fisher, 50th United States Colored Infantry, requesting five days rations to be issued for the regimental hospital at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Major A. E. Barnes commanding the 50th United States Colored Infantry and Colonel O. C. Risdon, the post commander, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of W. F. Fisher, assistant surgeon of the 50th United States Colored Infantry, requesting five days rations to be issued for use in the regimental hospital. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, the post commander, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Assistant Surgeon Joseph Lunly, requesting ten days rations to be issued for the patients in the Freedmen's Bureau Hospital at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, the post commander, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Assistant Surgeon Joseph Lunly, requesting rations to be issued for sick patients in the Freedmen's Bureau hospital at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, the post commander, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Assistant Surgeon Joseph Lunley, requesting rations to be issued for use at the hospital for freedmen at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Assistant Surgeon Joseph Lunley, requesting rations to be issued for use by patients at the hospital for freedmen at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of John S. Powell, Assistant Surgeon of the 52nd United States Colored Infantry, requesting eleven days rations to be issued for the regimental hospital at Clinton, Mississippi. The return is approved by Captain and Assistant Adjutant General Samuel A. Reed, by order of Colonel Charles A. Gilchrist, the Sub-District commander, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of George S. Kemble, Medical Director of the Department of Mississippi, requesting rations to be issued for enlisted men detailed as clerks and orderlies in the Office of the Medical Director at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from H. B. Evans, S. French, and H. Tolles, members of a committee of Capitol Lodge Number 11, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking Sharkey to help get the federal government hospital out of their lodge space in the city hall.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Doctor John T. Hodgen at Saint Louis, Missouri, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, praising Doctor G. M. B. Maughs, who was on the faculty of Missouri Medical College.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from T. G. Birchett at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking to be appointed a physician or a surgeon at the United States Marine Hospital in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William F. Camp at Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking the Governor for a letter recommending him to receive amnesty from President Andrew Johnson.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Robert C. Wood, Jr., at Louisville, Kentucky, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, recommending that he appoint someone to receive donations for the destitute people of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William C. Vernon Hicks, an assistant surgeon in the United States Army post hospital at Huntsville, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, seeking a job with the state government of Mississippi. Hicks's service in the United States Army has earned him support from Major General William Tecumseh Sherman.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from George W. Row in Woodville, Mississippi, to Jones S. Hamilton, asking if a surgeon will be appointed in each county to exempt.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Charles E. Michel, a surgeon at Enterprise, Mississippi, asking for cotton to be used for medical purposes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. B. Crow, President of the Board of Police of Winston County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the drafting of men into the militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. W. Smith in Monroe County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting that his son Byron be exempted from the draft as he was medically unfit for service.