From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Kemp S. Holland to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, requesting to be appointed to the office of assessor of Marshall County, Mississippi. (Letters of support for Mr. Holland are attached)

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from James F. Trotter and William M. Compton to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, enclosing for Sharkey's endorsement a petition from citizens of Holly Springs, Mississippi, to United States Postmaster General William Dennison. The enclosed petition, dated August 10, 1865, requests that Clement Reid be appointed postmaster of the town.