From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Unfinished report from E. W. Laird, listing nominations for county officers from several counties. Notes include dates of appointments, names of officers, and notes of those who failed to qualify. At the end of the report, Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn signs his name and requests the advice and consent of the Mississippi State Senate for the appointments.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from several citizens of Black Hawk, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that Richard W. Cole be exempted from Confederate military service. To justify the exemption, the petitioners state that Cole is in "feable health" due to a wagon accident that left him unable to perform much manual labor. The petitioners further state that Cole is responsible for overseeing a plantation; that he is a justice of the peace; that he lost his eldest son, a Confederate soldier, at Camp Beauregard; that his wife and children depend on him; and that he collected guns for Confederate use.