From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lock E. Houston at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to James Harrison, enclosing the affidavit of N. Oswell concerned with the alleged murder of W. Rucker by William L. Stricklin. Oswell's affidavit, dated September 5, 1864, is sworn before and witnessed by justice of the peace T. C. Brown.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from T. C. Brown at Okolona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that half of his taxes be remitted.