From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from F. M. Goar, president of Exchange Bank, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, claiming that evidence presented against Bill Merritt was not reliable.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from J. B. Allgood to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, in response to a previous letter from Ames regarding taxes on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Financial statement of Noxubee County, Mississippi, for the year 1874.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from William M. Hancock to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, recommending no pardon for Rufus Yates whose petition for pardon was made to Ames.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Superintendent of the State Penitentiary William Noonan to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, reporting on the prisoner Buck Jolly. Noonan gives no recommendation for or against pardon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Petition from Citizens of Starkville, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, asking for the pardon of multiple convicts involved in the building of the Memphis and Ohio Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Legal Document containing a contract between the Mississippi State Penitentiary and the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road to supply inmates for labor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from W. H. Mims, county assessor, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, in reference to the assessment of railroad property in Wayne County, Mississippi, asking if such property can be taxed. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Mims's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from L. M. Carruth, writing on behalf of citizens of Benton County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, who wish to construct a railroad through the county. Carruth asks if they would be allowed $4,000.00 per mile for a narrow gauge road. Included is a note from H. F. Hewson, Alcorn's private secretary, giving a summary of Carruth's letter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Henry B. Whitfield to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, addressing the placement of a Federal cavalry regiment within the county area. Whitfield gives his opinion as to who should be the commanding officer of the troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn detailing the concerns of the writer about getting a railroad charter through the legislature.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from C. A. Johnston to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, asking that Alcorn appoint him to represent the State at the next stockholders meeting of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from L. M. Hall, chief of the Mississippi Secret Service, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, updating Alcorn on the "'Hucabee' outcry" in Oxford, Mississippi, and stating that warrants had been issued for several parties implicated in said event. Hall questions a verbal communication given to him by William Morest, supposedly from Alcorn sending Morest in and through counties where African American people were leaving, to reassure them that the state was going to protect them. Hall believes Morest to have lied to him and plans on dismissing him.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, to Milton Brown, president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and L. J. Fleming, superintendent of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, asking that corn be transported to the starving families of their county.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Major General Dabney H. Maury at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, asking for aid in defending Mobile from an attack by United States forces.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens and civil officers of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking that the local militia be returned so they can grow crops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Abraham Murdock at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning Clark's decision to not issue government bonds.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel J. D. Stewart, Chief of Ordnance at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on the condition of his department.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lee Fleming in the office of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the use of the railroad by the citizens of Tishomingo County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Incomplete letter from C. A. Taylor to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning an effort to have corn brought up to impoverished people in northeast Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from B. Hamilton at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, giving a report on the finances of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Sworn statement from J. R. M. Duberry, the salt agent of Calhoun County, Mississippi, certifying that the salt intended for impoverished families of Confederate soldiers in the county was shipped to Okolona, Mississippi, where it was lost to a fire.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from United States Army Lieutenant Henry M. Cist, by command of Major General George H. Thomas, at Eastport, Mississippi, granting authority for the citizens of Tishomingo County, Mississippi, to run the Mobile and Ohio Railroad as well as the Memphis and Charleston Railroad within the confines of the county solely for the private interests of said citizens.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Taylor at Selma, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, requesting assistance in protecting and garrisoning the Memphis and Charleston Railroad and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Major General Dabney H. Maury at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Meridian, Mississippi, informing Clark that he will not send any additional state troops to Confederate Brigadier General Wirt Adams.