From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Noxubee County, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, for the pardon of Adolphus Cline who was indicted for assault and battery with intent to kill.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. List of Mississippians exempted from the amnesty proclamation of May 1865 but who were granted special presidential pardon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Noxubee County, Mississippi to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, asking for the pardon of Peter and Rocco Misso, indicted for selling liquors to minors. The pardon is included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, asking for the pardon of George C. Edwards, who was convicted of murder. The pardon is included.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from several citizens of Noxubee County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for the pardon of Mitchell Easley, who was convicted of murder in April 1873.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Undated list naming persons who are to have all legal and political disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment, by reason of their participation in the late rebellion, removed.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Certificate of loyalty for Charles B. Ames of Macon, Mississippi, stating that he was opposed to secession and never departed from his loyalty to the United States government. The certificate is signed by United States Army Captain W. W. Wheatley, provost marshal.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from citizens of Noxubee County, Mississippi, to United States Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch, asking that George W. Campbell be appointed assessor of taxes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Charles B. Ames at Macon, Mississippi, to United States Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch at Washington, District of Columbia, applying for the office of collector of internal revenue for his district. On the reverse, H. W. Foote, William D. Lyles, L. J. Dupree, and Sheriff William Conner endorse Ames's application.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from citizens of Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that Ed Jackson be appointed as the Postmaster of Macon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Charles B. Ames at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, requesting that Sharkey use his influence with United States President Andrew Johnson to help Ames get amnesty. Though Ames was a Unionist, he feared conscription into the war and accepted the position of Confederate assessor for Noxubee County, Mississippi.