From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from William H. Pedrick and James C. Elliott to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, requesting assistance in obtaining a twenty year charter for a steam ferry at Friars Point, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Message from Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn to the Mississippi State Senate and House of Representatives, recommending changes to an Act approved on February 13, 1867, concerning the Mississippi Yazoo-Delta levee commissioners and the collection of taxes by said commissioners and the respective county sheriffs.

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.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to Major Saunders, concerning a contract with Miles and Rich.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from W. A. Strong at Greenwood, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning a plan to smuggle cotton and wool cards into Mississippi from Memphis, Tennessee.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. M. Haynes in Macon, Mississippi, to A. M. West, offering to sell the state supplies that have been run in through the blockade in exchange for a contract.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Brigadier General Wirt Adams at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the movement of the troops under his command.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from R. S. Hudson at Edinburg, Mississippi, to W. H. Mangum, stating that he believes it is too dangerous to hold the ensuing term of the Yazoo County, Mississippi, court, and discussing several personal and political matters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. R. Christian at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark offering to exchange cotton cards for cotton which he can introduce into a "federal market".

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. D. Burch and J. B. Milroy at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, proposing to supply the state of Mississippi with 40,000 pairs of wool and cotton cards in accordance with an act of the Mississippi Legislature on December 9th, 1863.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Ike S. Robinson in Bolivar County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, informing Clark of the suspected plans of the United States Army in Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William R. Scott at Charleston, South Carolina, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus at Jackson, Mississippi, resending Scott's plans for a "steam battering-ram" and asking that the design be considered for use by the state of Mississippi and the Confederate Navy on western waters against the United States fleet. Scott states that he is also sending the report of the South Carolina Sub-commission on Submarine Batteries, Torpedoes, and c. (The South Carolina Sub-commission report that Scott mentions is mdah_409-397-04. This document is one of five documents in Series 409 that discuss William R. Scott's proposed plans for a steam-powered vessel. The other four documents are mdah_409-397-01, mdah_409-397-03, mdah_409-397-04, and mdah_409-397-05).

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 Sharkey Collection. Letter from C. M. Vaiden at Vaiden, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, complaining about a United States Treasury Department agent who is allegedly attempting to steal his cotton.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Mary Greene to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, requesting that he appoint her nephew, Frank Templeton, as his private secretary or a clerk in his office. Templeton is currently working at the Yazoo River and cannot apply for the position himself.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Russell Mallory in Richmond, Virginia, informing him that a United States Navy gunboat was sunk on the Yazoo River by a torpedo.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Mobile, Alabama, informing him that a United States Navy gunboat was destroyed by torpedo on the Yazoo River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from D. Flanery at Jackson, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus a battle was fought on Sunday at Big Black Bridge and the Confederates were forced to flee to the Vicksburg, Mississippi, entrenchments.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Colonel H. B. Lyon, commanding the post at Yazoo City, Mississippi, concerning the need to impress African Americans to establish woodyards on the Yazoo River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Zedekiah McDaniel at Vicksburg, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to come to the Yazoo River and forward all the powder he can spare.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in Vicksburg, Mississippi, concerning his intention to place the minute men at the raft on the Yazoo River and at Tchula by Honey Island.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in Vicksburg, Mississippi, asking when the minute men will arrive in the city, as he wishes to send them to the raft on the Yazoo River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Daniel Ruggles at Grenada, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus of the reported movements of enemy troops under the command of Generals Lew Wallace and William T. Sherman.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter by John McGuirk to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his election as Colonel of a Regiment.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. E. Montgomery, Commander of the Herndon Rangers in Bolivar County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning his company being ordered to Greenwood, Mississippi.