From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Voucher for the costs of executing a deed to lands sold to the state for state and county taxes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the officers of the Fourth Regiment of Mississippi State Troops in Panola County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting leave for the regiment because of disease in camp and the need to gather crops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Perry County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting that Daniel McGilrary be discharged from the state militia due to ill health.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from the destitute wife of a Confederate soldier in Magnolia, Mississippi, seeking aid from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William Britton at Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that artillery be sent to Natchez to protect the river from United States Navy gunboats.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Treasury draft from W. Taylor to H. C. Chalmers for money due to the family of Levin Bisland, 11th Mississippi Infantry, who died in service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. H. Magnum at Yazoo City, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus of the death of Mr. Gibbs, a member of the State Legislature from Yazoo County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. B. Orton at Pontotoc, Mississippi, informing the Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that letters to him should be sent to Pontotoc.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. L. Jones at Phoenix Mills, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking where dried fruit could be sold.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. J. Scott in Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking a discharge from the Confederate Army to manage his brother's farm and enslaved people.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. J. Price to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting an exemption from Confederate military service, as he is running a tanning business.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. M. Hamilton at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, recommending J. W. Burrage for a commissary position.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert S. Green in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have two friends released from militia service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert Muldrow, an officer in Wirt Adams' regiment of Mississippi cavalry at Lorman, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning shipment of pistols.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. W. Crump at Sardis, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking a position in the state militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, appointing H. O. Dixon an agent for the state of Mississippi to procure salt from Virginia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow, telling him that Colonel Hamilton had permission to organize a river command.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Matthew S. Ward in Panola, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the attempt to take away men of his battery, 14th Battalion of Mississippi Artillery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Masten Marcy to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have his underage son Osburn Marcy released from the 2nd Mississippi Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. R. Clark at Brookhaven, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning several companies of partisan rangers that are to be retained in Confederate Service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. B. Park at Verona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning an amendment to the Confederate conscript law.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John C. McCabe at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a Dr. Paul Gregory, who wants to raise a partisan ranger unit in Coahoma County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Stewart, a British national at Rodney, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the attempt to force him to serve in the Mississippi Militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James L. Tucker, a discharged Confederate soldier, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking a job to aid the Confederate States of America.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. W. C. Smith, the post surgeon at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking use of the Mississippi State Capitol for a fundraising concert.