From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Sworn statement from T. H. Ross and others that W. T. Smith is subject to fits.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the citizens of Paris, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that doctor A. A. Bryant be released from military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William R. Moseley to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting a commission to raise a regiment.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. B. Washington at Sumter County, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting a passport for Frank Staples, who is taking clothes to a soldier at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas E. Adams at Summit, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning movement of arms and ammunition and forwarding letter of F. H. Sleeper.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from the citizens of Marion County to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that the cavalry unit stationed nearby be removed for gross misconduct.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Stephen A. Eggleston at Lexington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the establishment of a guerrilla company in Holmes County.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Sergeant F. A. Crosley in North Carolina to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting recruits for his battery (Confederate Guards Artillery).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Reuben Davis at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus accepting the appointment at Brigadier General of militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Reuben Davis at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the act of the Legislature organizing militia in the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Pierre S. Layton at the Army of Mississippi Ordnance Office in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the testing of a carkeet cannon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from O. R. Powell at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting an exemption from military service for the overseer of S. H. Lanier's plantation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Major J[oel] E. Welborn at Camp Quitman, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing him that he has organized the 7th Battalion Mississippi Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Lieutenant William Palfrey at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to General Martin Luther Smith about the capture of four African Americans.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Samuel W. Red at Durant, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning exemptions from the militia conscription law.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Lewis Pipes at Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the need to conscript more men into the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J[ames] L. Alcorn at Mound Place, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking a settlement of his military accounts.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John W. Suber at Camden, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus offering to bring his enslaved African Americans for a work party advertised in the newspapers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Sandefer at Hope Hill, Pike County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting exemption from military service because of a broken hip.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Jeff B. Posey at Woodville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting a postion as officer in a camp of instruction.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Drane to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting an exemption from military service for two tanyard workers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. W. Wade in Richland, Holmes County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus offering his military services to the Governor.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. W. Carroll, an overseer, at Lexington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting exemption from militia duty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. T. Girault at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus enclosing a report of the capture of four African Americans trying to reach and join the federal fleet.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. M. Richardson at Marietta, Georgia to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the defense of the Mississippi River.