From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Hugh W. Hayes in Madison County, Mississippi, concerning a process for obtaining salt from water.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from H. R. Smith at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus seeking the position of Quartermaster for the Confederate Army hospital at Enterprise.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from George W. Freeman at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting the position of Commissary for the Confederate Army hospital at Enterprise.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Captain George T. Blackburn at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus seeking ammunition for Company D, 28th Mississippi Cavalry.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Captain Felix Hughes at Corinth, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus submitting a statement on the current condition of the 22nd Mississippi Infantry.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. O. Grigsby at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus seeking release from a Confederate cavalry company to be surgeon for the 10th Mississippi Infantry.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from D. C. Graham at Meadville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the declaration of martial law in Franklin County, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Colonel Joseph R. Davis, aid to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning exemptions from the conscript law.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. McLaurin, the President of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning five shares of stock due the state of Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Burton N. Harrison, Secretary to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, at Richmond, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the use of Partison Rangers in Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. Q. Withers at Byhalia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting an exemption for a man named Miller.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. G. Dunn, a surgeon of the "Lovell Rangers," (Company A, 17th Battalion Mississippi Cavalry) to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting a discharge.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Legal document from James E. Randolph requesting the extradition of Abram, an enslaved person, for an alleged assault in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Affadavit from A. H. Greenlee to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning Jasper Lewis, who allegedly assaulted and attempted to kill him.
