From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Stephen Castleman at Ashland, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, denying that he ever held any cotton for Mrs. Rose.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Major A. P. Barry in Ashland, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the impressment of 50 enslaved persons.