From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Carter L. Stevenson in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the need to shut down the Southern Railroad of Mississippi for repairs.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the men of the 5th Mississippi Regiment of State Troops, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for a release from service so that they can take care of their families.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Crawfordville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that Richard Wilkins be discharged from the militia, as he has six sons in Confederate service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Newton and Jasper Counties, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting the release of James M. Pearce, a blacksmith, from militia service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Lafayette County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that the men recently drafted into the militia not be taken.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from militia member Z. Jordan at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that his militia unit be allowed to go home to raise a crop for their families.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. M. Hancock in Quitman, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that Thomas Long, a tailor, be excused from Confederate military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Captain W. L. Lowry of Company K, 2nd Mississippi Cavalry, State Troops, at Baldwyn, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning recent operations of his unit.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. H. McCardle, Confederate General John C. Pemberton's Chief of Staff, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the payment of Mississippi State Troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. H. McCardle, Confederate General John C. Pemberton's Chief of Staff, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the need for enslaved persons to work on the Southern Railroad of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. H. Mangum in Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that George G. Hahn be detailed to act as a deputy in Yazoo County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. H. Mangum in Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that John Williams, a newspaperman, be detailed as a public printer.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Vincent T. Powell, a soldier in the 1st Mississippi Infantry, State Troops, at Camp Vaiden to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking to go home to run his grist mill.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas J. Portis, an officer in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a letter from Richard Phillips.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mrs. Rufinia A. Lawrence in Winston County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that her husband be sent home from the Confederate Army, as she was "shamefully treated" by an enslaved person.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Ralph North in Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning payment of $200 to his sister-in-law, Mrs. Brown.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. M. Semple at Woodville, Mississippi, concerning an order from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to impress enslaved persons to work at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Major M. R. Clark, an officer in the conscript bureau, at Brookhaven, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a man in his camp who is allegedly insane.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Major A. P. Barry in Ashland, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the impressment of 50 enslaved persons.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from L. Johnston, an officer in the 2nd Battalion of State Troops at Milldale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the need of his troops to lay in crops at home.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James W. McCutchon, a refugee from Louisiana, in Monticello, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the impressment of one of his enslaved persons.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James H. Rives, Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus's personal secretary, informing General James Z. George that his troops will be paid as soon as the pay rolls are made out.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James H. Evans in Vaiden, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, tendering his resignation as Captain of Company G, 1st Regiment Mississippi Minutemen.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. W. Wade in Copiah County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning one of his enslaved persons who was impressed to work on the Vicksburg, Mississippi, fortifications.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. R. Maury to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, presenting a copy of Special Order Number 51 from Confederate General John C. Pemberton, concerning pay for Mississippi State Troops in the service of the Confederate States of America.