From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of First Lieutenant J. S. McHarg, Company E, 47th United States Colored Infantry, requesting ten days rations to be issued for one man employed in the Quartermaster Department at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Captain Assistant Adjutant General Samuel A. Reed, by order of Colonel Charles A. Gilchrist, 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 Lieutenant J. S. McHarg, Company E, 47th United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for men employed in the Quartermaster Department 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 Lieutenant J. S. McHarg, Company E, 47th United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for men employed in the Quartermaster Department 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 Lieutenant J. S. McHarg, Company E, 47th United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for men employed in the Quartermaster Department 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 Lieutenant J. S. McHarg, 47th United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for one enlisted man on duty in the Quartermaster Department 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 First Lieutenant J. S. McHarg, Company E, 47th United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for persons employed at the Quartermaster Department at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.