From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from N. V. N. McLendon at Dalton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the hardships being faced by the families of soldiers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Navy Captain Z. M. Daniel at Port Hudson, Louisiana, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting cotton rope to aid in the primers of torpedoes after other primers failed when attempted against the United States Navy frigate "Mississippi."