From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Captain Arthur T. King, Company F, 50th United States Colored Infantry, requesting eleven days rations to be issued for the men of his command. 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 Captain Arthur T. King, Company F, 50th United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for use by men of his command at Canton, 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 Captain Arthur T. King, Company F, 50th United States Colored Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for men under his command at Canton, Mississippi. The return is approved by Captain and Assistant Adjutant General Samuel A. Reed, by order of Colonel Charles A. Gilchrist, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.