From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from R. S. Buck at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning his client, R. B. Scott, who sued in civil court to get back his plantation that had been leased by the United States Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from Pike County, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus not to detail any more men from Pike County, Mississippi, into the Mississippi State Militia.