From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from R. H. Simmons to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting clarification about the Superintendent of Education in Leflore County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. List of charges from the Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi State Quartermaster Absolom M. West, for telegrams sent in August 1862.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from D. S. Pattison at New Liberia, Louisiana to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the seizure of a steamboat being used to haul salt.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. H. Pierce at Panola, Mississippi, to Lieutenant William Atwood, advising of the jail break with outside assistance of Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, prisoners C. E. Mooney and W. J. Avant. Pierce asks that a reward of $1,000 be offered for the capture of Mooney, who is accused of murder.