From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Colonel L. Houghton, Quartermaster General of Mississippi, certifying that he had turned over the archives and property of his department to United States Army Captain J. Warren Miller.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Special Orders No. 7 from United States Army General J. A. Maltby, written by Lieutenant J. T. Gleason, appointing Captain L. C. Hubbard to hold the archives and property of the state of Mississippi. On the reverse, a note by W. A. Gordon, dated June 20, 1865, revokes Maltby's order and, by order of Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, directs Captain J. Warren Miller to resume charge of state property.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Thomas B. Lenoir at Macon, Mississippi, certifying that he has turned over the property of the Mississippi Adjutant General's office to United States Army Captain J. Warren Miller.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of a letter from C. F. Christenson, aide to United States Army Major General Edward Canby at Mobile, Alabama, to United States Army Brigadier General E. D. Osband, informing Osband that his action in taking the Mississippi state archives is approved. Christenson further states that General A. J. Smith has been requested to send the Mississippi Land Office's records from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi. This copy is transcribed by Osband's Assistant Adjutant General J. Warren Miller.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of a letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Jackson, Mississippi, to United States Army Brigadier General E. D. Osband, informing Osband that the archives and property of the state had been turned over to United States Army Captain J. Warren Miller and providing a list of property in the executive mansion turned over to Miller. Clark also states that other officers of the state will deliver the archives and property from their departments. This copy is transcribed by Miller, Osband's Assistant Adjutant General.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Clem C. Moore, superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary, certifying that he had turned over the property of the state to United States Army Captain J. Warren Miller.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Secretary of State C. A. Brougher at Jackson, Mississippi, certifying that he had turned over the property of his office to United States Army Captain J. Warren Miller.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Adjutant General John Logan Power at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, accepting the position of Superintendent of Army Records for the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. F. Simmons at Sardis, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning his effort to create a digest of the decisions of the Mississippi High Court of Errors and Appeals. Simmons asks for access to the reports of the court.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from Lucius R. Wilson of Coffeeville, Mississippi, to United States President Andrew Johnson, transmitted through Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for a presidential pardon. Wilson explains that he was elected sheriff of Yalobusha County and subsequently appointed Confederate States tax collector for the county, thus making him exempt from the benefits of President Johnson's amnesty proclamation. (This petition is the enclosed application for pardon mentioned in mdah_771-955-04-30).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Samuel Livingston, Clerk of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, explaining how Livingston preserved and reconstructed the court's records during and immediately after the Civil War.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General John C. Pemberton in Vicksburg, Mississippi, advising Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to remove the State Archive from Jackson, Mississippi, as the United States Army will very likely move on the city.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Typescript copy of a letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate Colonel John Marshall Stone, commander of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry, acknowledging recept of the regiment's flag.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. S. Wilson in the United States General Land Office to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning land purchased by Thomas Ellis at Grenada, Mississippi, in 1833.