From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. S. Hunt asking help for Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, widow of a Confederate soldier, who is sick and in destitute circumstances.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the state troops stationed at Milldale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that they be disbanded and allowed to go home.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that the cannon at Oxford not be taken away.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting permission to have new companies being formed meet at Holly Springs, Mississippi, to be put into a regiment.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Newton County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking him to recruit Choctaw Native Americans into the military.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Yazoo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus recommending Daniel Jones to be appointed Judge of the 5th Judicial District.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from citizens of Bolivar County, Mississippi, asking for arms for a local military company.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter ordering Confederate Major Livingston Mims to arrange transportation for the 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment, 2nd Brigade.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus recommending Doctor J. D. Adams as surgeon for one of the newly formed regiments.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Win H. Bowen at Union Church, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting authority to make a contract to alter arms for military use.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Colonel William S. Barry of the 35th Mississippi Infantry concerning the need for an efficient force to chase down deserters.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William Mitchell asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to ask for the extradition of Calvin Gibson from the state of Kentucky.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. P. King and Company in Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking a state contract to make leather goods.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from V. L. Terrell to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking if he can get cloth to make uniforms for his company from the state penitentiary.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James A. Seddon, the Confederate Secretary of War, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the use of state militia for local defense.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Samuel M. Meek to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the efforts to reelect Pettus to a second term as Governor.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from "Romeo" to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus warning him that Landy M. Wansley is lying in his petition to stay out of the militia.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mollie Nunnamaker to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking for aid as she is a soldier's wife and has no food to give her family.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to John Echols directing him to make out a pardon for Charles Williams of De Soto County, Mississippi, and deliver it to C. E. Hooker.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mary Jane Sullivan to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that her husband be discharged from the Confederate Army.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. Mcafee to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing him that he had the wagons for Confederate General McLaurin's command ready.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. E. Fisher asking that her husband, David D. Fisher, be given a furlough to come home and plant crops.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Captain John McGuirk of the Mississippi Rangers to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to request 14 tents for his command.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John H. Stewart to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking equipment for the company he is raising.
