From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from W. M. Townsend in Newton County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting payment of damages for a horse taken by the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Alabama to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus vouching for the loyalty of David Henderson.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William F. Dowd at Chattanooga, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning attacks against him in the papers for abandoning Fernandina, Florida.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas O. Byrd at Richland, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus seeking aid for the men of the 4th Mississippi Infantry taken prisoner at Fort Henry, Tennessee.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. W. Caskey at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the running of the soldier's hospital in Oxford, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. B. Thompson at Greensboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting authority to muster his company into service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Sarah Coombs at Helena, Arkansas, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus reporting on soldiers hospitalized in Nashville, Tennessee. (Moved to Box 25880).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert S. Hudson at Benton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning his appointment as Circuit Judge of the 5th District.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. K. Clayton in Jasper County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the organization of a military company (Company A, 40th Mississippi Infantry).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. D. Ogletree and men of the 36th Mississippi Infantry at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting the Dr. G. E. Longmire be excused from service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. J. Wharton at the Attorney General's Office in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning payments made to local government officials.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Matthew S. Ward at Panola, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the use of bell metal to make cannons (14th Battalion Mississippi Light Artillery).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Madison McAfee to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning contracts for tents.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John W. Wood at Kosciusko, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus applying for the position of District Attorney.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John W. Balfour at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the election of company officers for the 6th Mississippi Battalion.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John D. Woods at Wahalak, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting a recommendation for Woods as surgeon of Colonel Barry's Regiment (35th Mississippi Infantry).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. W. Martin at Brookhaven, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the need for proper bandages to treat wounded from the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. R. Johnson at Newton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting transportation for Dr. McCall and five others to battlefield (probably Shiloh, Tennessee).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. Millsaps at Gallatin, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus introducing Dr. H. J. Coliman.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. M. Richardson at Flowers Place, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus suggesting that Pettus make another call for volunteers for the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. M. Howry at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the use of University of Mississippi buildings as makeshift hospitals.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. M. Henry at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the use of private homes in Oxford by the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. H. Ripley at Lake, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting transportation of bandages and medicine to Corinth, Mississippi, for wounded from the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. D. Ruffin at Senatobia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning a company being raised in the local community.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from H. M. Jeter at Elm Grove, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the failure to move cotton bales away from the railroad in DeSoto County, Mississippi.