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Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Letter from William M. Pollan to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 20, 1865
African Americans
Choctaw County (Miss.)
Confederate States of America. Army
Crime
Crime--Fraud
Crime--Theft
France
Greensboro (Miss.)
Historically free and newly freed African Americans
Military Events--Military elections
Military Events--Recruiting and enlistment
Military Status--Veterans
Mississippi. Militia
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Pollan, William M.
Secessionists
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Union League of America
Unionists (United States Civil War)
Affidavit of N. J. Gilmer with additional statements of support; July 1865
Appointment to office
Barry, Unknown
Bell, John, 1796-1869
Carr, J. J.
Clayton, Phil
Confederate States of America. Army
Crawford (Miss.)
Crime
Crime--Arson
Crime--Robbery
Crime--Threat
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Death
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877
Gilmer, John R.
Gilmer, N. J.
Harvey, Theophilus
Henderson, W. H. C.
Indiana
Jackson, J. M
Jones, James
Jones, W. O.
Judges
Justices of the peace
Legislators
Lowndes County (Miss.)
Mississippi. Legislature
Mississippi. Legislature. Senate
Mississippi. Militia
Notaries
Owen, D. F.
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Richhart, Robert S.
Secession
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Under Review
Unionists (United States Civil War)
United States. Army
United States. Army. Indiana. Cavalry Regiment, 12th
United States. Army. Indiana. Cavalry Regiment, 12th. Company I
United States. Congress
United States. Congress. Legislation. General Amnesty Act (1865)
Whitlock, C. B.
Letter from Ira McDowell to Colonel Otto Funke, referred to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 1865
Appointment to office
Choctaw County (Miss.)
City Council Members
Crime
Crime--Fraud
Drane, Unknown
Funke, Otto
Greensboro (Miss.)
Grenada (Miss.)
Headquarters, Military
Jackson (Miss.)
McDowell, Ira
Political Parties--Constitutional Union Party (U.S.)
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Secession
Secessionists
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Unionists (United States Civil War)
United States. Army
United States. Army. Illinois. Cavalry Regiment, 11th
Webster County (Miss.)
Letter from William L. Brandon to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark; June 13, 1864
Appointment to office
Brandon, William Lindsay, 1801-1890
Clark, Charles, 1811-1877
Columbus (Miss.)
Confederate States of America. Army
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi. Infantry Regiment, 21st
Cooper, Samuel, 1798-1876
Military Events--Recruiting and enlistment
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Woodville (Miss.)
Letter from J. M. Watts to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; August 1, 1865
Appointment to office
Brandon (Miss.)
Death
Garlandville (Miss.)
Judges
Mayers, A. G.
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Tax auditing
Unionists (United States Civil War)
Ware, Unknown
Watts, John
Letter from J. L. Downs to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; August 1, 1865
Amite County (Miss.)
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893
Centreville (Miss.)
Confederate States of America. Army
Criminal Procedure--Amnesty
Downs, J. L.
Fort Adams (Miss.)
Military Engagements
Military Engagements--Chancellorsville, Battle of, Va., 1863
Military Events--Capitulations, Military
Military Status--Military families
Military Status--Prisoners of war
Natchez (Miss.)
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Stores, Retail
Tax collectors
Taxation
Taxation--Exemption
Taxation--Mississippi
United States. Congress
Wilkinson County (Miss.)
Wounds and injuries
Letter from George W. Harper to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 24, 1865
Appointment to office
Brougher, Charles Albert
Enslaved people
Enslavers
Harper, George W.
Hunt, F. S.
Jackson (Miss.)
Mississippi. Legislature
Mississippi. Secretary of State
Newspaper editors
Newspapers
Newspapers--Hinds County (Miss.) Gazette
Owen, T. F.
Political Parties--Union and Southern Rights Party (Miss.)
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Potter, George L.
Printers
Publishers
Raymond (Miss.)
Robb, John W.
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Unionists (United States Civil War)
United States. Congress
Letter from F. M. Gee to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 26, 1865
Appointment to office
Chickasaw County (Miss.)
Gee, F. M.
Houston (Miss.)
Jackson (Miss.)
Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Tax auditing
Tax collectors
Taxation
United States. Army
Wheeler, Unknown
Letter from William M. Pollan to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 20, 1865
Choctaw County (Miss.)
Confederate States of America. Army
Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi. Cavalry Battalion, 1st (Choctaw)
Crime
Crime--Fraud
Crime--Robbery
Enslaved people
France
Greensboro (Miss.)
Historically free and newly freed African Americans
Military Events--Military elections
Military Events--Recruiting and enlistment
Mississippi. Militia
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Pollan, William M.
Secessionists
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Union League of America
Letter from D. C. Greenwood to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 20, 1865
Appointment to office
Confederate States of America--Military Service (Branch Unspecified)
Davis, Reuben, 1813-1890
Gholson, Samuel Jameson, 1808-1883
Greenwood, D. C.
Houston, Lock E.
Impoverished people
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Judges
Military Status--Veterans
Newspaper editors
Newspapers
Newspapers--Aberdeen Independent (Aberdeen, Miss.)
Phelan, James, 1821-1873
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Scooba (Miss.)
Secession
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Unionists (United States Civil War)
United States. Marshals Service
United States. President
Letter from John S. Dobbs to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 7, 1865
Appointment to office
Clarke County (Miss.)
Clerks
Dabbs, John S.
DeSoto County (Miss.)
Evans, J.
Jackson (Miss.)
Judges
Kemper County (Miss.)
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Probate courts
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Letter from Dan R. Russell to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 5, 1865
Appointment to office
Carroll County (Miss.)
Carrollton (Miss.)
Clerks
Courts
Courts--Circuit Courts
Curtis, W. H.
Grenada (Miss.)
Hemingway, W. L.
Judges
Political Parties--Democratic Party (U.S.)
Political Parties--Union and Southern Rights Party (U.S.)
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Political elections
Probate courts
Russell, Daniel R.
Secession
Secessionists
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Letter from William F. Dowd to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 3, 1865
Aberdeen (Miss.)
Criminal Procedure--Amnesty
Criminal Procedure--Pardon
Disease and illness
Dowd, William F.
Emancipation and self emancipation
Enslaved people
Impoverished people
Jackson (Miss.)
Military Status--Military families
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Secession
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Strong, Elisha
United States. Congress
United States. Congress. Legislation. General Amnesty Act (1865)
Letter from Judge Thomas H. Davis to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 3, 1865
Aberdeen (Miss.)
Criminal Procedure--Amnesty
Criminal Procedure--Pardon
Davis, Thomas H.
Enslaved people
Enslavers
Jackson (Miss.)
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Secession
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Strong, Elisha
United States. Congress
United States. Congress. Legislation. General Amnesty Act (1865)
Letter from George Sykes to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 3, 1865
Aberdeen (Miss.)
Criminal Procedure--Amnesty
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Secession
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Strong, Elisha
Sykes, George A.
Letter from C. B. New to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 1, 1865
Abolitionists
African Americans
Appointment to office
Breckinridge, William L., Jr.
Buena Vista (Miss.)
Criminal Procedure--Amnesty
Disenfranchisement
Governors--Louisiana
Historically free and newly freed African Americans
Kentucky
Louisiana
Louisville (Ky.)
Merwin, D. O.
New, C. B.
Political Parties--Democratic Party (U.S.)
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Rodney (Miss.)
Secession
Secessionists
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Slave trade--United States
Washington (D.C.)
Wells, James Madison, 1808-1899
Letter from A. M. West to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 3, 1865
Appointment to office
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
Clerks
Criminal Procedure--Arrest
Durant (Miss.)
Durham (N.C.)
Emancipation and self emancipation
Holly Springs (Miss.)
Leatherberry, G. D.
Macon (Miss.)
Mississippi. Legislature
Mississippi. Quartermaster Department
Mississippi. State Penitentiary (Jackson, Miss.)
Philips, Z. A.
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Railroad
Railroad--Mississippi Central Railroad Company (1852-1877)
Salt contractors
Salt mines
Secession
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
West, Absalom Madden, 1818-1894
Letter from L. K. Swoope to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 29, 1865
Aberdeen (Miss.)
Aydlett, T. P.
Billups, Thomas C.
Bradford, B. M.
Columbus (Miss.)
Confederate States of America--Draft
Confederate States of America. Army
Criminal Procedure--Amnesty
Criminal Procedure--Pardon
DeSoto County (Miss.)
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Memphis (Tenn.)
Military Events--Military discharge
Military Status--Draftees
People with disabilities
Plantations
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Secession
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Swoope, L. K.
Tennessee
United States. Congress
United States. Congress. Legislation. General Amnesty Act (1865)
United States. President
Letter from E. R. Wallan to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 26, 1865
Aberdeen (Miss.)
Confederate States of America. Army
Criminal Procedure--Amnesty
Dowd, William F.
Jackson (Miss.)
Military Status--Military families
Physicians
Planter
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Secession
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Sykes, G. A.
Wallace, E. R.
West, Absalom Madden, 1818-1894
Letter from Lock E. Houston to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 24, 1865
Aberdeen (Miss.)
Appointment to office
Confederate States of America--Military Service (Branch Unspecified)
Houston, Lock E.
Jackson (Miss.)
Monroe County (Miss.)
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Sheriffs
Sims, John B.
Unionists (United States Civil War)
Wounds and injuries
Letter from John Dowling to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 23, 1865
Appointment to office
Dowling, John
Indianapolis (Ind.)
Jackson (Miss.)
Judges
Lacoste, Charles A.
Newspaper editors
Newspapers
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Saint Louis (Mo.)
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Letter from James S. Prestidge to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 25, 1865
Appointment to office
Confederate States of America. Army
Conventions
Conventions--Mississippi. Convention (1861)
Cooper, F. T.
Criminal Procedure--Amnesty
Criminal Procedure--Pardon
Enslaved people
Hurst, Unknown
Impoverished people
Jackson (Miss.)
Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875
Judges
Lamkin, John T.
Lawyers
McRae, Unknown
Mississippi. Legislature
Mississippi. Legislature. House of Representatives
Newspapers
Newspapers--Mississippian (Oxford, Miss.)
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Political elections
Prestidge, James S.
Richmond (Va.)
Secession
Secessionists
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Unionists (United States Civil War)
United States. President
Letter from Thomas H. Prince to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 15, 1865
Hopkinsville (Ky.)
Jackson (Miss.)
Jances, Unknown
Johnegan, Unknown
Judges
Kentucky
Macon (Miss.)
Noxubee County (Miss.)
Physicians
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Prince, Thomas H.
Refugees
Secession
Sharkey, William Lewis, 1798-1873
Unionists (United States Civil War)
Walker, Larry W.
Letter from R. S. Pryor to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; August 26, 1862
Abolitionists
African Americans
Boston (Mass.)
Boston Harbor (Boston, Mass.)
Brookhaven (Miss.)
Clark, Unknown
Confederate States of America. Army
Confederate States of America. Army. Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office
Confederate States of America. Army. Cavalry
Confederate States of America. Congress
Confederate States of America. Congress. House of Representatives
Confederate States of America. War Department
Conscript officers
Death
Emancipation and self emancipation
Engineers
Enslaved people
Evacuations
Ferryperson
Georgia
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
Historically free and newly freed African Americans
Jackson (Miss.)
Love-joy, Unknown
Military Events--Military discharge
Military Events--Military service exemption
Military Events--Recruiting and enlistment
Military Status--Draftees
Mobile (Ala.)
Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867
Pharmacists
Phillips, Unknown
Political Parties--Democratic Party (U.S.)
Political Parties--Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Postmasters
Pryor, R. S.
Richmond (Va.)
Tennessee
United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783
Vicksburg (Miss.)
Letter from S. R. Jones to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; October 8, 1861
Boddy, George
Caskey, Thomas W., 1816-1896
Clergy
Confederate States of America. Army
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Fisher, E. S.
Grenada (Miss.)
Gulf Coast (Miss.)
Harper, J. N.
Jones, S. R.
Matthews, James E
Matthews, Unknown
Military Status--Military families
Military chaplains
Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867
Political Parties--Whig Party (U.S.)
Political elections
Unemployed
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