From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Order from Lieutenant and Post Adjutant J. N. Taylor, on behalf of Colonel O. C. Risdon, to Captain J. P. Schooley, Post Commissary, instructing Schooley to issue five days rations to W. D. Brown and one paroled Confederate Soldier at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the citizens of Issaquena County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that the local militia not be sent to Greenville, Mississippi.