From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Confederate President Jefferson Davis to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark concerning African-American men about to be conscripted into the United…

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Captain W.E. Montgomery of the Herndon Rangers to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark concerning alleged raids being made by armed African Americans led by…

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Columbia, Mississippi, concerning the need for mounted rangers to police local African Americans and disaffected citizens.