From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from Winston County, Mississippi, seeking exemption from Confederate military service for Dr. M. B. Bragg.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter signed "A True Southern Girl" from Attala County, Mississippi, giving a list of Union men in Attala County.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Williamson Glover in Lake Station, Mississippi, requesting permission to muster in a Confederate company for the war.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William H. McCarole in Mobile, Alabama, asking that his sons' company, the Confederate "Claiborne Guards" (12th Mississippi Infantry) be ordered into service.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. L. Sykes in Aberdeen, Mississippi, requesting a commission in the Confederate Army.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. L. Buford in Oxford, Mississippi, requesting a commission to raise a company of Confederate Cavalry.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. K. Easterling in Brandon, Mississippi, concerning the election of officers for the Confederate 6th Mississippi Infantry Battalion.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas S. Gathright in Gholson, Mississippi, seeking exemption from Confederate military service to take care of his family.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Fairy Glenn, Mississippi, concerning the establishment of a hospital near Terry, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. W. Caskey in Oxford, Mississippi, concerning the movement of African Americans out of Memphis, Tennessee.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Sheriff William McRae of Warren County, Mississippi, concerning guns he is collecting for use by the State of Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert S. Hudson in Benton, Mississippi, seeking to have a District Attorney appointed.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Rice H. Winter in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, asking if his substitute can join a volunteer regiment.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Gallatin, Mississippi, requesting that suspicious persons travelling through Mississippi be searched in case they are spies.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Pierre S. Layton in Meridian, Mississippi, concerning Confederate military companies being organized at that place.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mayor of Kosciusko, Mississippi, S. Durham, concerning cotton being stored in the town in violation of the law.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mary A. Jones, widow of a Confederate Army veteran, in Natchez, Mississippi, seeking aid to help take care of her children.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. H. Hobbs, a female teacher in Union Church, Mississippi, asking to be permitted to travel to her home in Boston, Massachusetts.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter of extradition requesting that Rudolph Brauss, a fugitive from justice, be returned to Louisiana.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Lea Williamson, a doctor in Sardis, Mississippi, asking if he will be exempted from conscription.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John M. Porter in Kosciusko, Mississippi, seeking a "position where I can be of benefit."
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Hardeman in Tunica County, Mississippi, introducing his son John O. Hardeman.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John D. Elliott in Grenada, Mississippi, requesting authority for J. J. Seal to muster in recruits for Company C of the Confederate 38th Mississippi Infantry.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Gordon in Columbus, Mississippi, requesting "old holster pistols" to help arm the Confederate cavalry company he is raising.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Gordon in Columbus, Mississippi, requesting a Confederate Lieutenant Colonel's commission in Jeff Davis's Legion.
