From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. F. Boulden to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking to be appointed to the office of treasurer for Alcorn University.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. J. Stockard to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, requesting an appointment to the office of circuit and chancery clerk of Colfax County, Mississippi. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Stockard's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Henry B. Whitfield to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, recommending Henry J. Richard to be appointed as the circuit clerk of Colfax County, Mississippi. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Whitfield's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from I. A. Orr to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, requesting that payment be made to the men sent to Memphis, Tennessee to escort a Mr. Gwen back to Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. Stallings to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking that the request of H. J. Richard for the office Circuit Clerk of Colfax County, Mississippi, and giving his support to the request for such an appointment.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Robert L. Donnelly to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn's Private Secretary H. F. Hewson, asking for an update on the standing of his receiving a reward for the capture of George Hanby, who was wanted in Calhoun County, Mississippi for murder. Donnelly states that he has written the Governor several times concerning the reward but has not heard back from him.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Henry B. Whitfield to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, enclosing Whitfield's letter of resignation for Justice of the Peace of Lowndes County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Henry B. Whitfield to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, addressing the placement of a Federal cavalry regiment within the county area. Whitfield gives his opinion as to who should be the commanding officer of the troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letters from Judge Jehu Amaziah Orr and John McIntosh to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, containing a recommendation and attached letter from John McIntosh to Alcorn for the office of Marshall in Okolona, Mississippi in support of B. J. Abbott.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Mrs. A. B. Meeks to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, stating that Mrs. Meeks is concerned about the way her property was assessed for tax purposes and appeals to Alcorn.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from C. A. Johnston to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking that Alcorn appoint him to represent the State at the next stockholders meeting of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from W. E. Gibbs to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, stating support for the appointment of Major H. B. Whitfield as the Mayor of Columbus, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from S. M. Meek to Judge Jehu Amaziah Orr, with statements concerning the assassination of Taylor Hill, esq.,. Other statements are included written by Barry Matthews and W. W. Humphries.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Judge Jehu Amaziah Orr to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, concerning H. T. Hill esq., who seems to have been assassinated. The letter details how Hill had been lured away from Columbus, Mississippi, by his college friend and then ambushed by four men.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Two letters and a sworn statement from C. M. Thomas, W. A. M. Hemy, and A. J. Shipman to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, concerning an escapee from the jail of Noxubee County, Mississippi. Thomas writes to say that he had investigated the incident which was first reported as having been an abduction of a prisoner with the "help" of the guards on duty by masked men; however Thomas says that this was false and the prisoner escaped from the jail by jumping out of a window. Additional correspondance details the other accounts of the incident.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Thomas McCarren and Geo. B. McNamara to R. J. Mathews. A reply written to Mathews concerning the case of William Hanlan (also known as Michael Hanlan). The letter states that Hanlan and the man whom he was charged with shooting served in the same military unit stationed in Columbus, Mississippi, in August of 1867. Both men were drunk from liquor and got into a quarrel. Hanlan went to his tent to get his rifle and shot Beau, another man, and was then turned over to local authorities in Columbus.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from J. T. Smith, addressed from the United States Internal Revenue Collector's Office in Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, thanking Alcorn for an appointment to some office. The letter has a sarcastic tone and does not mention what office the appointment is for.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Murray Peyton, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn that the Senate had confirmed the accompanying list of county and municipal officer nominations for Lowndes, Tippah, Copiah, Clarke, Carroll, and Jackson Counties, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Doctor Jno. Brownrigg at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn that, despite statements to the contrary, Columbus Mayor David L. Wallace is not drinking. Brownrigg states that Wallace was following Brownrigg's prescription that he have a beer once or twice a day. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, private secretary to Alcorn, giving an executive summary of Brownrigg's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from United States Army Major R. S. Moore at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Lieutenant E. Weakley, concerning efforts of "certain parties" to claim cotton for the state.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Petition from several citizens of Chickasaw County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning outrages allegedly commited by United States Colored Troops stationed in their community.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Two letters from John Duncan, a trustee of the Mississippi Institution for the Blind in Jackson, Mississippi. The first letter, dated February 20, 1865 and addressed to Lock E. Houston, speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, contains information from a report from the school's superintendent and a memorial from the board of trustees. The second letter, dated February 23, 1865 and addressed to William Yerger, president of the Mississippi Senate, contains Duncan's personal opinion on the state of the school and his doubts about keeping the school open.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that 20 men be present in Jackson, Mississippi, on January 4, 1865, for consultation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of a letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Jackson, Mississippi, to United States Army Brigadier General E. D. Osband, informing Osband that the archives and property of the state had been turned over to United States Army Captain J. Warren Miller and providing a list of property in the executive mansion turned over to Miller. Clark also states that other officers of the state will deliver the archives and property from their departments. This copy is transcribed by Miller, Osband's Assistant Adjutant General.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Secretary of State C. A. Brougher at Jackson, Mississippi, certifying that he had turned over the property of his office to United States Army Captain J. Warren Miller.