From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Hamilton Cooper at Decatur, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that the state government send in troops to break up and arrest the band of alleged Confederate Army deserters operating in the county.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from state militia officer Hamilton Cooper in Newton County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking to whom he should send his returns.