From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Major Adin Mann, 124th Illinois Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for hired citizens in government employ on the railroad in the Engineer Department at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Ration return of Major Adin Mann, 124th Illinois Infantry, requesting rations to be issued for hired citizens in government employ on the railroad in charge of the Engineer Department at Jackson, Mississippi. The return is approved by Colonel O. C. Risdon, thus authorizing the Assistant Commissary of Subsistence to issue the requested rations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Samuel H. Lockett at Marion, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Jackson, Mississippi, applying for a job as professor at the University of Mississippi at Oxford, Mississippi.