From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Receipt from W. B. Peery for the impressment of a gray horse from John Flowers valued at $350 dollars.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Gas bill from F. T. Peale in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus from the gas light company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Lowndes County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to have Joseph Flood detailed from the 3rd Battalion, Mississippi State Troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Note certifying that J. B. Dunn of Dunn's Mounted Rangers, State Troops was incapable of performing the duties of a soldier.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William Pickett in Bolivar County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the need to protect the agricultural products being grown in the county for use of the Confederacy.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. In complete letter from W. S. Beemes at the camp of the 35th Mississippi Infantry to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning some state troops wishing to transfer to the regiment.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. M. Gillespie at the Office of the Post Quartermaster in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the need for rooms for a military court.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. D. Deupree at Brookville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning who their local defense company should report to.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. Cothram at Carrollton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking for permission to create a cavalry company to hunt down stragglers and deserters hiding out in Choctaw County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. C. Turner at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the establishment of a local defense company for protection against United States Army raids.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. D. Dunlap at Bellefontaine, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the raising of a militia company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Samuel Houston in Standing Pine, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the conscription of men from Leake County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. M. Moseley at West Point, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing him that a local defense company had been formed.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert Hollingsworth at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking to be released from militia duty to run his grist mill.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. P. Tillman at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning his enslaved person who was in jail in Copiah County, Mississippi, allegedly charged with murder.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. G. Keller, Quartermaster of the 2nd Regiment, Mississippi Militia at Milldale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning his need for wagons to move supplies.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from P. M. Fairley and citizens of East Pascagoula, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that Sidaine Krebs be released from the militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from P. Henry at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the effort to impress horses for use of the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Order from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus for government officials to ready the state papers for removal to Meridian, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General John Adams asking for a guard force to convey a group of convicts to Alabama.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Lock Houston at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting arms for Hewlett's cavalry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from L. Lawhorn at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that Confederate Captain Dunning be reappointed Quartermaster of the 1st Mississippi Regiment, State Troops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John L. Gresham at Sherman Hill, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting that their local militia company be assigned to duty along the Southern Railroad of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James H. Rives at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the bad behavior of Smith's regiment in a recent fight with United States Army raiders.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James H. Rives at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the capture of Jackson, Mississippi, by the United States Army.