From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Report from J. J. Gainey to L. M. Hall, chief of the Mississippi Secret Service, describing how he got a young Mr. Woods to confess to being a member of "the three K's" and to being involved in shooting up a widow's home, and the murder of another African American man during said incident. Gainey states that he is enclosing affidavits of witnesses to the confession. (Enclosed affidavits not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Affidavit of N. J. Gilmer, notarized by Theophilus Harvey, justice of the peace of Lowndes County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, concerning cotton that N. J. Gilmer was allegedly forced to sell to the Confederate States government and Gilmer's application for amnesty. The affidavit is dated July 18, 1865. Attached are additional statements from United States Army Captain Robert S. Richland and other citizens testifying to Holmes' position as a justice and to Gilmer's allegiance to the United States. The appended statements are variously dated July 18 and July 19, 1865.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from R. Cooper at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning his two sons in the Confederate Army who were indicted in Simpson County, Mississippi, for alleged murder.

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 Confederate Lieutenant General Richard Taylor at Selma, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning his plans to combat United States Army operations in Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest to Colonel T. H. White, ordering him to keep Colonel Blythe's command.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Petition from several citizens of Coahoma County, Mississippi, forwarded by Colonel John J. Pettus to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, asking that the local militia company be allowed to remain in the county.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letters from Joshua Green and A. MacFarland, both at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, on the same document, concerning the use of enslaved persons as teamsters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, thanking Clark for the complimentary resolution passed by the state legislature.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Colonel G. L. Blythe at Senatobia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning his efforts to collect and send forward militia who are absent from their commands. (Blythe writes that he encloses an order from General Nathan Forrest. Said document is not present).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest, asking Forrest to order all Mississippi state troops to report to Colonel John J. Pettus at Grenada, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from W. L. Williams at Atlanta, Georgia, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, seeking leave to go to Macon, Mississippi, to settle his accounts with Ham's battalion of the Mississippi Cavalry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from George J. Mortimer at Crystal Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting authority to raise a regiment of cavalry for state service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from George J. Mortimer at Crystal Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, introducing Colonel Willing, a citizen of Copiah County, Mississippi.

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, requesting reinforcements for Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest to stop a United States Army movement down the Mississippi Central Railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Charles W. Anderson, adjutant to Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest, at Okolona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning movements of the United States Army cavalry near Abbeville, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Copy of Special Orders from Charles W. Anderson, by command of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest, at Oxford, Mississippi, to Colonel G. S. Blythe, ordering him to report to Colonel T. W. Whitt.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest at Tupelo, Mississippi, offering to muster and lend him two companies of state troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Captain James F. Meister, an aide to Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the conscription of men for Forrest's command in Choctaw and Carroll counties, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. M. Wesson, owner of the Mississippi Manufacturing Company at Bankston, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, asking Clark for protection from Confederate Army deserters who are allegedly raiding the county. Wesson states that the company the governor ordered to Bankston never arrived, and a company ordered by Colonel McCullough has left.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, to Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk at Demopolis, Alabama, concerning the transfer of Mississippi Militia troops to Confederate service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Brigadier General Samuel J. Gholson at Buena Vista, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning the transfer of Mississippi Militia troops to Confederate service and reporting on the status of his command.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Affidavit containing the sworn statements and requests of Amelia Harnesberger in Lowndes County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey, asking that the cotton she sold to the Confederate government be returned. Hornesberger's statements explain that she feared that Confederate forces would destroy all her crops if she did not sell a portion of them to the Confederacy. Hornesberger reports that she was paid in Confederate bonds and notes for her cotton bales. She asks that the United States government see the sold cotton restored to her, and that she receive the benefits of the amnesty proclamation. The statements in this affidavit were recorded by and sworn before Theophilus Harvey, a magistrate and notary for Lowndes County.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Confederate Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, informing the Governor that Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's scouts reported the United States Army in force at La Grange, Tennessee, and that they were preparing to move on Grenada, Mississippi.