From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from W. W. Campbell to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking for an appointment for himself in order to support his family.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. M. Patrick to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing the Governor that he believes that his life is in danger and that of his family due to his position against the Ku Klux Klan in his area. He also explains that he has some friends who are helping to protect him, but still fear the number of Ku Klux Klan outnumber his protection, he is asking for the Governor to look into his situation with regard to arresting the members of the Klan.

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 Sheriff Jas. M. Burton of Lee County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn that a person or persons burned a Black Methodist Church in Lee County, and that a party of armed men also subsequently murdered an African American man named Gilbert Fields.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Invitation and complementary from Mississippi Secretary of State James Lynch to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, for the Phillip Phillips concert held on March 30, 1871. Phillips was an internationally acclaimed spiritual hymn writer and performer based out of New York.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Legal document from William S. Patton, including several items stuck together from Lauderdale County, Mississippi, concerning the deposition of W. S. Patton and his statement of how he came to find the bodies of several men of color who had been murdered.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Catalog entitled "Catalogue of the Library of the State of Mississippi" listing the holdings of the Mississippi State Library as of January 1865. The catalog contains alphabetized lists of legal reports from various states, elementary and miscellaneous law texts, legal codes, governmental documents from the United States and the individual states, and historical and literary texts. (This document is the enclosed catalog mentioned in mdah_768-950-05-05).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that Burwell Jones be pardoned for selling spirituous liquors of less than one gallon to an enslaved person.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from James A. Lyon at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, explaining why he was unable to attend the meeting of the Educational Commissioners. In a postscript, Lyon states that he is also sending a copy of his report entitled "Slavery and the Duties Growing out of the Relation", which he presented before the Presbyterian Church General Assembly in 1863. (Report not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from M. N. Casky, the chaplain of Wood's company of the 2nd Battalion Mississippi Cavalry at Beaties's Bluff, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on rich men who are evading the draft.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Reverend John Lusk at Clinton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the exemption of ministers from Confederate military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from R. J. Jeffress and W. B. Jeffress at Senatobia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that they be allowed to skip taking the amnesty oath as they are Nazarenes and their church requires them to take no oaths.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Certificate of military election from A. P. Turner and William H. Witty in Choctaw County, Mississippi, concerning the organization of a county militia company. The certificate gives an account of a meeting held at Salem Church to organize said company, and lists the persons whom were elected company officers. The certificate is witnessed by acting justice of peace R. D. Oglesby.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Pastor Joseph B. Stratton at Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, recommending William Burnet to organize the mail service for the state.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Alex J. Smith to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey asking if the constitution of the United States has been altered on the subject of slavery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Mary D. Loving at Carrollton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for Sharkey's recommendation of a residence to buy in Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from John C. Keener, President of the Louisiana Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for a letter of introduction to President Andrew Johnson.

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. Petition from citizens of Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking him to appoint William Dix as mayor of the city and Charles F. Merrick as city clerk.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from F. A. P. Barnard to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking him to pass on a letter to Reverend William Crane, rector of Saint Andrews Church in Jackson, Mississippi, as there is not yet a post office for Barnard to do so.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Captain John W. Jack, provost marshal of Port Gibson, Mississippi, giving C. B. Clark, chief of police, authority to arrest all "evil-doers, jayhawkers or other disturbers of the peace" and to bear arms without confiscation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Simeon W. King at Chicago, Illinois, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, enclosing a petition from multiple citizens of Chicago asking that King be appointed commissioner of deeds for the state of Mississippi in Illinois. (The enclosed petition is mdah_771-954-04-02). King is the commissioner for many other states and territories.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Printed letter from Major General O. O. Howard, head of the Freedmen's Bureau in Washington, District of Columbia, offering advice to the assistant commissioners of the Freedmen's Bureau in the aftermath of the Civil War. The assistant commissioners are told to put faith in their government and follow all orders, and to not be excessive with military law. Howard declares that all assistant commissioners are vital to the progression past slavery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Aaron Jones at Peoria, Illinois, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, discussing Unionist sentiment in Mississippi and asking about conditions in Jackson, Mississippi, since he left. Jones also states that his wife owns about five hundred acres of land adjoining Jackson and asks whether her title to the land is still good.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus detailing the damage done to Jackson, Mississippi, and the surrounding county by the United States Army.