From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. C. Webber to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn's Private Secretary H. F. Hewson, requesting to know if the Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn has signed three Acts of the Legislature.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. N. Gilman at Tangipahoa, Louisiana, to the Provost Marshal at Jackson, Mississippi, sending an enslaved man for confinement, as he attempted to escape to the United States Army.