From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, suggesting that cattle rejected by government buyers should be sold to local farmers.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Governor Francis Richard Lubbock of Texas to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking the extradition of J. B. Fields for the crime of larceny.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. M. Cuyler at the Confederate Arsenal at Macon, Georgia, informing J. M. Kennard that Confederate General Cobb would be consulted about arms.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from P. S. McCormic at Newton Station, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking if conscripts can be elected to office.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Moses Jordan at West Point, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting an exemption for Mr. Hilliard, a miller by trade.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi State Treasurer M. D. Haynes at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning cotton on hand.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from an officer of the 14th Mississippi Artillery, Matthew S. Ward, at Panola, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his court-martial.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Matthew S. Ward at Panola, Mississippi, to Confederate General Daniel Ruggles, concerning the movement of United States Navy boats on the Mississippi River.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. T. Davis, asking if Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus can send her five sacks of salt.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John B. Burke at Newton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the hardships caused to the local people because the millers have all been drafted.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John B. Fant at Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a question of conscripts.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James O. Fuquer at the Provost Marshal's Office in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the loyalty of Doctor Gregory.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Drane to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the hardships that the lack of salt is causing for the impoverished people of Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. T. Daniel at Milldale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that no more soldiers be detailed from Company E, 1st Regiment, Mississippi Militia.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from H. O. Dixon at Abingdon, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his efforts to obtain salt for the state of Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from H. O. Dixon at Abingdon, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning an attempt to buy salt for the state of Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from George Offett, at the Post Office Department in Richmond, Virginia, to H. A. Irby, offering a contract to deliver mail on Route 639.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from George H. Gordon to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting black powder that is needed for salt mining in Louisiana.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Eliza Hurst near the Yazoo River, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that her son, John, be discharged from the Confederate Army to take care of the family farm and manage enslaved people.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Colonel William H. Taylor of the 12th Mississippi Infantry at Sharpsburg, Maryland, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the need for replacements in his regiment.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Commander of the 1st Regiment, Mississippi Minute Men, Colonel Benjamin King at Milldale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning pay due for two officers.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. R. Dickson at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a dead letter that Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus needs to sign for.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. M. Vaiden at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning an investigation into the state of Mississippi buying a salt works in Alabama.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. J. Worsham at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning petitions for bail for some of his clients.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Augustin Chew at Yazoo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, giving a report on salt works in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
