From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Lock E. Houston at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, vouching for the loyalty of Silas F. Kendrick, the sheriff of Monroe County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sheriff Silas F. Kendrick of Monroe County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning his eligibility to hold the office of sheriff. Kendrick attempts to controvert claims made to Sharkey by friends of Kendrick's election opponent that alleged he was a secessionist and that he is exempt from President Andrew Johnson's amnesty proclamation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John W. Thompson in Ripley, Mississippi, concerning the conviction of W. G. Smith, who has served six years in the Mississippi State Penitentiary.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Resolutions from a mass meeting of the workingmen of Massachusetts calling on a peaceful resolution to the current crisis.