From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from W. H. Mims, county assessor, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, in reference to the assessment of railroad property in Wayne County, Mississippi, asking if such property can be taxed. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Mims's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from L. M. Carruth, writing on behalf of citizens of Benton County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, who wish to construct a railroad through the county. Carruth asks if they would be allowed $4,000.00 per mile for a narrow gauge road. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Carruth's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Henry B. Whitfield to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, addressing the placement of a Federal cavalry regiment within the county area. Whitfield gives his opinion as to who should be the commanding officer of the troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn detailing the concerns of the writer about getting a railroad charter through the legislature.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from C. A. Johnston to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking that Alcorn appoint him to represent the State at the next stockholders meeting of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from L. M. Hall, chief of the Mississippi Secret Service, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, updating Alcorn on the "'Hucabee' outcry" in Oxford, Mississippi, and stating that warrants had been issued for several parties implicated in said event. Hall questions a verbal communication given to him by William Morest, supposedly from Alcorn sending Morest in and through counties where African American people were leaving, to reassure them that the state was going to protect them. Hall believes Morest to have lied to him and plans on dismissing him.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, to Milton Brown, president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and L. J. Fleming, superintendent of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, asking that corn be transported to the starving families of their county.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Major General Dabney H. Maury at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, asking for aid in defending Mobile from an attack by United States forces.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens and civil officers of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that the local militia be returned so they can grow crops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Abraham Murdock at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning Clark's decision to not issue government bonds.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel J. D. Stewart, Chief of Ordnance at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on the condition of his department.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lee Fleming in the office of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the use of the railroad by the citizens of Tishomingo County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Incomplete letter from C. A. Taylor to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning an effort to have corn brought up to impoverished people in northeast Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from B. Hamilton at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, giving a report on the finances of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Sworn statement from J. R. M. Duberry, the salt agent of Calhoun County, Mississippi, certifying that the salt intended for impoverished families of Confederate soldiers in the county was shipped to Okolona, Mississippi, where it was lost to a fire.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from United States Army Lieutenant Henry M. Cist, by command of Major General George H. Thomas, at Eastport, Mississippi, granting authority for the citizens of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, to run the Mobile and Ohio Railroad as well as the Memphis and Charleston Railroad within the confines of the county solely for the private interests of said citizens.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Taylor at Selma, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, requesting assistance in protecting and garrisoning the Memphis and Charleston Railroad and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Major General Dabney H. Maury at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Meridian, Mississippi, informing Clark that he will not send any additional state troops to Confederate Brigadier General Wirt Adams.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Colonel William N. Brown of the 20th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, in Bolivar County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on his regiment's raid into Jones County, Mississippi, to hunt alleged Confederate deserters, as well as the need for cotton and wool cards for the citizens. (Brown states that he is enclosing a horse comb made by the struggling widow of a Confederate soldier. Enclosed item not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Receipt from William, a station agent at the Mobile, Alabama, station of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, for hauling one sack of salt from Macon, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Baskerville, Whitfield, and Company at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, proposing to supply the state of Mississippi with 15,000 pairs of cotton cards in return for shipping cotton along the Mississippi River. (Document is related to mdah_768-949-02-05).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Contract between the state of Mississippi and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to rebuild the line between Okolona, Mississippi, and Saltillo, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Contract between the firm of Baskerville, Whitfield, and Company at Columbus, Mississippi, and Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, to supply 28,000 cotton cards to the state of Mississippi, in exchange for shipping cotton along the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. (This document is a revised copy of mdah_768-949-02-13. It includes some variations from the earlier contract).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Contract between the firm of Baskerville, Whitfield, and Company at Columbus, Mississippi, and Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, to supply 30,000 cotton cards to the state of Mississippi, in exchange for shipping cotton along the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Louisiana, and Memphis, Tennessee. (mdah_768-949-02-14 is a revised copy of this contract. It includes some variations).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Milton Brown, the president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning repair of the tracks above Okolona, Mississippi, and correcting misinformation related to Clark in regards to the railroad.