From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas C. Rhodes in East Pascagoula, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning an alleged crime committed by Zackariah Er[??]hart in 1859. Letter damaged and hard to read.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Spencer Adams in Marengo County, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the secession of Mississippi from the Union and quoting from a separate letter that Adams received from a former member of Congress.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Sheriff B. F. Saunders in Friars Point, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the extradition of James Hogan from Tennessee for the murder of Cornelius Maroney.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Ruff Newton in Columbus, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus of the alleged murder of an enslaved girl named Sarah by M. A. Mullen and Drucilla Mullen.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from N. R. Sledge in Panola, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that John N. Fly had been elected constable in Panola County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, submitting Mississippi's "Resolutions on Federal Relations" to the other slave states. The resolutions address the upcoming presidential election of 1860, the legal status of enslaved persons according to the United States Constitution, and a proposed convention of the slaveholding states.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Maitpouy to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking Pettus to pardon Nolan Turner, a resident of Yazoo City, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Drane in Jackson, Mississippi, requesting that Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus reduce the fine on Elijah Cochran.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Drane in Jackson, Mississippi, requesting that Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus remove the fine on Elijah Cochran.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. S. Wilson at the United States General Land Office to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the release of a claim in the Columbus District.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. S. Wilson at the United States General Land Office to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the sale of land in Township XX. N.R. 7 West.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. S. Wilson at the United States General Land Office to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the release of claims under the swamp grant of September 28, 1850.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from G. T. Rankin in Panola, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus for arms for the "Panola Guards," a local militia company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. Edge, Jr. in Rienzi, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus for permission to sell liquor in small quantities.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from United States Congressman John J. McRae of Mississippi in Washington, D.C., enclosing a letter from Congressman William Montgomery of Pennsylvania asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to pardon Nelson Turner, a convict in the Mississippi state penitentiary.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Colonel H. K. Craig, the United States Army Chief of Ordnance, in Washington, D.C., informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that 292 muskets were being sent to the state from the arsenal at Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. Farish in Woodville, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to offer a reward for Joseph J. Dillihunty - allegedly responsible for the murder of Wiley McGraw in 1859, - who fled the county after being released on bail.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. E. Lewis in West Pascagoula, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus if the commissioner to locate overflowed lands in Jackson County, Mississippi, had resigned.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. C. McEwen in Holly Springs, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus for arms to equip a local militia unit opposed to the ideas of abolitionists.