From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from W. E. Jolley to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, addressing a letter he sent on June 9, 1871 concerning an incident where a county sheriff would not receive a prisoner.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from United States Army Lieutenant Colonel P. Jones York to C. H. Clark, requiring Clark to appear at post headquarters to answer for "cases of disorder" allegedly committed by him.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Special Order No. 14 from Lieutenant Colonel P. Jones York, commanding the post of Port Gibson, Mississippi, revoking the authority of C. B. Clark to patrol roads.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Doctor W. G. Williams in Claiborne County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, urging the state to bring in needed goods through the United States Navy's blockade.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from W. H. Dameron in the office of Mississippi Chief Commissary at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the exemption request of Albany J. Wright.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from G. W. Humphreys at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting the appointment as dispenser of spirituous liquors for Claiborne County, Mississippi, in light of the resignation of his brother, B. Humphreys. (Humphreys writes that he is attaching his brother's resignation. Said resignation is mdah_768-950-01-34).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from B. Humphreys to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, tendering his resignation as dispenser of spirituous liquors for Claiborne County, Mississippi, and recommending his brother, G. W. Humphreys, to the position. (This appears to be the attached document mentioned in mdah_768-950-01-33).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Robert H. S. Martin at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning his application to be a dispenser of spirituous liquors in Claiborne County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel John C. Humphreys at the prisoner of war camp at Johnson's Island near Landusky, Ohio, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking Clark to help get him swapped for Lieutenant Colonel William H. Glenn, 89th Ohio Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Two copies of a letter from D. S. Pattison at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the settling of his accounts as salt agent for the state.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Clarissa Young at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, reiterating her requests first stated in her letter of July 28, 1865, asking Sharkey for advice in removing African American persons from her property, whom Young claims have been antagonizing her. Young also asks for assistance in reclaiming property that the government had previously seized with the claim that it was for a hospital at Grand Gulf, Mississippi. She believes that her first letter did not reach Sharkey. (The letter to which Young refers is mdah_771-955-07-34).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William F. Poole at Grand Gulf, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, informing Sharkey that his appointment as postmaster for Grand Gulf and Port Gibson, Mississippi, had not arrived.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Clovissee Young to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking for Sharkey's advice on how to have some African American persons removed from her property in Claiborne County, Mississippi. Young also asks if Sharkey could recover property allegedly taken from her house by United States Army soldiers under General Ulysses S. Grant.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from James D. Wood at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, informing Sharkey that a "police" group had organized in Claiborne County, Mississippi, supposedly for protection from "marauders and [African Americans] who are roaming about". Wood states that he has been "deputized" as the group's chief and asks Sharkey for instructions on how to proceed.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from James R. Challere at Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if it would be safe for Hannah Berry - a formerly enslaved African-American woman - and her children, who were fathered by a slaveholder, to return to Mississippi. Challere also asks whether African Americans can legally hold property, and encourages Sharkey to obtain "160, 200, or 300" acres of land on which Hannah Berry and her children could live and work.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from James H. Maury at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, bringing Sharkey up to date on the efforts to curtail alleged stealing by the United States Army occupation troops in Claiborne County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Walter McDougal at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking if it was an oversight of his proclamation in not reinstating circuit court clerks. He also states that the records of the probate clerks were delivered to General Davidson.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from James H. Maury at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that Daniel Willis be confirmed a sheriff of Claiborne County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from C. H. Fontaine at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning the need for civil authority in Port Gibson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letters from J. H. Maury in Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, complaining that United States Army troops were allegedly stealing cotton from private citizens. Maury also alleges that much of the cotton has been embezzled.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. H. Maury at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking permission to create a police force. Maury alleges that the United States Army occupation troops are stealing cotton from the people of the community. Maury recommends a few men to name as captains, lieutenants, or sheriffs for the Mississippi towns of Rocky Springs, Bruinsburg, and Rodney.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Captain John W. Jack, provost marshal of Port Gibson, Mississippi, giving C. B. Clark, chief of police, authority to arrest all "evil-doers, jayhawkers or other disturbers of the peace" and to bear arms without confiscation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Sarah F. Buckner to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking Sharkey's aid in obtaining compensation from the United States government for her losses during the war.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from James H. Maury at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, recommending William A. Green for county assessor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from H. J. Elliott in Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking who can take the amnesty oath and receive the benefits of it. In postscript, Elliot states that the records of the Probate and Circuit Courts were removed to Natchez, Mississippi, for their protection, and one box of records was lost.