From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from John M. Burke to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, requesting an amendment to a lien law.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from F. M. White, president of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, introducing Montgomery Lynch, a civil engineer. White asks for Lynch to be considered to take the survey of the Vicksburg and Memphis Railroad. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, private secretary to Alcorn, giving an executive summary of White's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from William Morest at Grenada, Mississippi, to L. M. Hall, chief of the Mississippi Secret Service, stating what part of the state he is working in. He also states that the officials from several counties are cooperating with him in his investigation into the assassination of W. F. Brantley, mayor of Winona, Mississippi, and his tracking of fugitives who have escaped from jail in those counties. He recounts his conversation with Brantley's widow. Morest further explains his intentions to carry out the investigation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Chief Impressment Agent F. S. Blount, at Mobile, Alabama, to A. S. Livermore, superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad at Grenada, Mississippi, concerning the impressment of twenty enslaved persons to work on the railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. S. Blount, Chief Agent of Impressment at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, addressing how long they can keep the enslaved persons impressed to work on the railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from F. S. Blount, Chief Agent of Impressment at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, informing Clark that enslaved persons will be impressed to work on the railroad in north Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of a telegram from A. S. Livermore, superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad at Grenada, Mississippi, to Chief Impressment Agent F. S. Blount at Mobile, Alabama, stating that L. R. Wilson refused to conduct impressment and asking what arrangements can be made.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Statement from Thomas L. Carter that the bacon he has purchased in solely for the use of the employees of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter by A. S. Livermore, the superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a new railroad bridge being built across the Tallahatchie River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. S. Livermore, Superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that R. J. Christian be detailed from the militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from F. M. White, president of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, in Sardis, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, explaining why he cannot supply enslaved people to work as teamsters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. S. Livermore, superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have state troops detailed to work rebuilding bridges.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Preston, Mississippi, by Andrew K. Blythe, requesting to exchange flintlock rifles for percussion rifles (Company E, 44th Mississippi Infantry).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from F. M. White in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus regarding a false report of an insurrection in Panola County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. F. Vance in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus sending Pettus a resolution passed by the directors of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Voucher for F. W. White explaining that he is authorized to receive money on behalf of the Mississippi and Tennessee railroads.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames in Jackson, Mississippi, to the President of the Mississippi Central Railroad Company, requesting compliance with a legislative act requiring railroad companies to repay debts to the state.