From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Copy of a letter from First Lieutenant John W. Critchfield, sub-commissioner for the Freedmen's Bureau at Canton, Mississippi, to Lieutenant Colonel R. S. Donaldson, acting assistant commissioner for the Freedmen's Bureau in the Northern District of Mississippi, concerning problems caused by the local militia in Livingston, Mississippi, wrongfully seizing guns from freedmen. (This document is the enclosed letter mentioned in mdah_776-960-01-34).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from United States Army Lieutenant Colonel R. S. Donaldson, acting assistant commissioner for the Freedmen's Bureau in the Northern District of Mississippi, to Major W. A. Gordon, assistant adjutant general to Major General Peter J. Osterhaus, enclosing an extract of a letter from Lieutenant John W. Critchfield concerning the wrongful seizure of arms from freedmen in Madison County, Mississippi. (Enclosed letter from Critchfield is mdah_776-960-01-35). A note from Gordon, on behalf of Osterhaus, indicates that Donaldson's correspondence was referred to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey.