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Letter from Captain S. D. Cooper to Lieutenant Colonel R. S. Donaldson; September 5, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Captain S. D. Cooper, an officer in the 50th United States Colored Infantry, to Lieutenant Colonel R. S. Donaldson concerning a dispute over ownership of…
Letter from K. Rayner to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; August 21, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from K. Rayner in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey concerning a plan to have the federal government pay Southerners for the…
Letter from Mayor R. D. McLean to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; August 1, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from R. D. McLean, the mayor of Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey asking if African Americans who are allegedly stealing in the…
Letter from Frank Spruell to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; August 1, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Frank Spruell, a formerly enslaved person, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey asking that the tax on his business be waived.
Letter from Alex J. Smith to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 28, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Alex J. Smith to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey asking if the constitution of the United States has been altered on the subject of slavery.
Letter from T. A. Marshall and W. Brooke to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 15, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from T. A. Marshall and W. Brooke to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey concerning the shooting of a freedman by Joseph L. Jackson, his former enslaver.
Letter from S.R. Frierson to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 5, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from S. R. Frierson to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey asking his view on the emancipation of enslaved people.
Letter from J. B. Lake to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; July 4, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from J. B. Lake to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey asking what his policy will be regarding African Americans and recommending that they be required…
Letter from George T. Swann to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey; June 29, 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from George T. Swann to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey asking Sharkey to explain the president's proclamations in regard to the emancipation of…
Statement; 1865
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Undated statement concerning the arrest of Captain Peck, Provost Marshal of the Freedmen's Bureau.