From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the citizens of Copiah County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for the discharge of Richard Hartley from the Mississippi State Militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. General Order #7 from Confederate General John C. Pemberton, allowing equal pay for state troops serving under Confederate Army authority.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. J. Pleasant to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning exemptions from Confederate military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. H. Winston in Gainesville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking if he can trade cotton for salt.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. C. Saffold in Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have his brother D. A. Saffold discharged from the Confederate military.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. Berry Prince, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that his company, "The Pettus Partisans," will be ready for duty November 3, 1862.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from V. O. King to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus regarding the exemption of millers and druggists from militia service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas Weldon to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the use of the steamboats Dixie and Dew Drop in building the obstruction raft on the Yazoo River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas Weldon in Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Confederate General John C. Pemberton, concerning his work to build a raft to obstruct the Yazoo River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter T. W. Winston to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus. Moved to Box 25880 because of its size.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Secretary of War George W. Randolph at Richmond, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the use of state troops for local defense.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Rubin Lee in Hancock County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining about the lack of Confederate troops to defend the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Reuben Davis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking about the availability of salt.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. M. Hove at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning B. A. Golden, who was reporting for duty to Pettus as a steamboatman.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate Secretary of War George W. Randolph, concerning the need for transportation to bring salt from Louisiana to Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General John C. Pemberton, concerning the use of two steamboats to bring salt from Louisiana.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Milton E. Bacon in Okolona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the need for salt by destitute families.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Lieutenant A. J. Cochran in Petersburg, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have the Confederate Guards Artillery transferred to Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John H. Nelson in Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking a position in the government.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James M. Howry at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, protesting that more buildings on the Univesity of Mississippi campus are about to be turned into hospitals.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James G. Avery, a soldier in the Confederate 4th Mississippi Cavalry, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking if the Exemption Act applies to men already in Confederate service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. Z. George, seeking to have Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus order the Mississippi State Militia to gather the crops of men who are in the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. S. Nehul at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining about the partisan rangers in De Soto County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. McFarland at Yazoo City, Mississippi, requesting that Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus send cannon to protect the raft being built to obstruct the Yazoo River.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. McFarland at Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the need for nails to be used in Confederate gunboat construction.