From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from E. Stafford, Jas. R. Yerger, and A. Virden to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, containing a request by the board of mayor and aldermen of the city of Jackson, Mississippi, to reinstate two previously removed members of the board, a McLaughlin and Peyton. Enclosed in the letter is a newspaper clipping containing the proceedings of a public meeting in which citizens of Jackson appointed Stafford, Yerger, and Virden to write to Alcorn on the aforesaid matter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from R. Maxey at Enterprise, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus of the damage done to Jackson, Mississippi, by the United States Army.