From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Printed account of the forced removal of illegitimate legislators from the Louisiana House of Representatives by federal troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Editor B. F. Jones at Carrollton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that a copy of the Internal Revenue Act be sent to him so that it can be published in the newspaper.