From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. General Orders No. 53 from United States Adjutant General E. D. Townsend, revoking General Orders No. 40.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Geo. McKee to H. F. Hewson, Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn's private secretary, enclosing a copy of an offer by Starr and Frazier to equip the Mississippi Militia. McKee notes the information may still be of value. Included is a note from Hewson summarizing McKee's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Mrs. C. Lockenwitz to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn that she had not been paid for her services as the matron of the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum in Vicksburg, Mississippi, for the months of December 1869 through April 1870. Mrs. Lockenwitz asks for her claim to be paid. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Lockenwitz's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from W. S. Cannon to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, concerning the possibility of the Ku Klux Klan members of Union County, Mississippi being convicted of their crimes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. General Orders No. 41 from Secretary of War Edward Townsend at the War Department, concerning Jefferson Barracks, Missouri.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from U. B. Tabor to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, writing again to ask for his help with a local establishment that is selling liquors. States that it is hard for him to run his factory due to the local citizens patronization of said drinking shop.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from A. Devi to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking Alcorn to send United States Army troops to Lee County, Mississippi, to help with a rash of crimes against African Americans in the county. Devi notes that parties have burned a Black church to the ground, shot another man at his own home, and whipped several other people, yet the local authorities have done nothing to help out of fear.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Henry B. Whitfield to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, addressing the placement of a Federal cavalry regiment within the county area. Whitfield gives his opinion as to who should be the commanding officer of the troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Charles Jordan to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing him that in response to the Governor's request there were troops headed to Meridian, Mississippi, to preserve the peace, and asking whom in Meridian would be his point of contact there.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Francis Bongoll to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, mentioning his military service from 1855 to 1867. He also mentions that now his constitution has been shattered and asks the Governor for assistance in finding some form of work that is less physical in nature.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Thomas J. Burges to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking if the government is willing to reimburse him for the loss of his "small fortune" due to the War.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Petition from M. Drane to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, requesting the removal of the current sheriff of Wayne County, Mississippi. (Note included from S. Evans supporting the recommendation) (Petition not included)

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Mississippi State Auditor Henry Musgrove to Mississippi Attorney General J. S. Morris, asking for clarification of Musgrove's duties and abilities to pay out expenditures approved by the Mississippi Militia commander-in-chief. On the reverse, Morris writes a reply to Musgrove. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, private secretary to Alcorn, giving an executive summary of Musgrove's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Printed Special Orders No. 474 from Assistant Adjutant General Edward D. Townsend, by order of the United States Secretary of War, stating that Sergeant Cay H. Landon of the 1st Mississippi Rifles will be released from confinement at the Missouri State Penitentiary and given a dishonorable discharge.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Thomas McCarren and Geo. B. McNamara to R. J. Mathews. A reply written to Mathews concerning the case of William Hanlan (also known as Michael Hanlan). The letter states that Hanlan and the man whom he was charged with shooting served in the same military unit stationed in Columbus, Mississippi, in August of 1867. Both men were drunk from liquor and got into a quarrel. Hanlan went to his tent to get his rifle and shot Beau, another man, and was then turned over to local authorities in Columbus.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from A. P. Miller in Rankin County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, writing on behalf of Thomas Easom, a freed person whom Miller formerly held as an enslaved person. According to Miller's letter, Easom is seeking a pardon for his son, a United States Army veteran who was convicted of larceny and sentenced to four years incarceration. Miller asks for clemency for Easom's son, whom Miller characterizes as "young and ignorant" when convicted. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, private secretary to Alcorn, giving an executive summary of Miller's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Damaged, incomplete letter from someone in the Territory of Denver, Colorado, written to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, requesting a pardon for the son of the sender, who is incarcerated in the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Superintendent of Mississippi State Penitentiary Z. A. Philips to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, recommending that George Lewis, an African American man who is currently incarcerated at the Mississippi State Penitentiary, be given a pardon on the grounds that Lewis still professes his innocence. Lewis is also suffering from a gunshot wound received during his service in the United States Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mr. Moseley in Panola County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking if all mill owners are to be conscripted into the state militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from United States Army Major A. A. Hosner, judge advocate, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning the jurisdiction of military courts in cases involving Mississippi citizens.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. W. Keyes at Carrollton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, offering suggestions as to how the state militia should be organized.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Printed Special Orders No. 474 from Assistant Adjutant General Edward D. Townsend, by order of the United States Secretary of War, stating that Private J. M. Morgan of the 1st Mississippi Rifles will be released from confinement at the Gratiot Street Prison in Saint Louis, Missouri, and given a dishonorable discharge.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from John Duncan, a trustee of the Mississippi Institution for the Blind in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, containing copies of the annual report of the school's board of trustees and the annual report of the school's superintendent.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from Sarah Garrett at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that she be pardoned for her crime of allowing enslaved persons to trade as freemen.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Printed Special Orders No. 474 from Assistant Adjutant General Edward D. Townsend, by order of the United States Secretary of War, stating that Private John McWilliams of the 1st Mississippi Rifles will be released from confinement at the Missouri State Penitentiary and given a dishonorable discharge.