From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from W. G. Parker in Vicksburg, Mississippi to MIssissippi Governor John J. Pettus, informing the Mississippi Governor that A. Burwell has taken the Oath of Allegiance.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from C. G. Green in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the rank of Confederate Officers who are being mustered.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Captain William Clark asking permission to purchase provisions if Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus cannot send them.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from W. H. McCardle in Corinth, Mississippi, asking Confederate Captain J. B. Money to rush the three large tents for Confederate General Clark.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Secretary of War L. P. Walker in Richmond, Virginia, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to order artillery batteries to Confederate General William Hardee.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Secretary of War L. P. Walker in Richmond, Virginia, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to send him the locations of the camps of instruction in Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Army of Mississippi Quartermaster General A. B. Dilworth in Iuka, Mississippi, concerning a shipment of bacon.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, requesting that Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus send two regiments armed with muskets to Pensacola, Florida, and two regiments armed with country rifles to Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus if he can send two armed and equipped regiments to Pensacola, Florida.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, asking if Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus can send two regiments to Pensacola, Florida, to replace the two already there.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, concerning the need for more troops from Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from O. P. Anderson in Goodman, Mississippi, asking if there is a call for 10,000 more troops in Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. C. Monet, mayor of Shieldsboro, Mississippi, asking that the Gainesville Volunteers be kept in town to help protect it from the enemy.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mary A. Carr in Vicksburg, Mississippi, asking if Dan Carr left Jackson, Mississippi, for Pensacola, Florida.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mad McAfee in Iuka, Mississippi, asking G. W. Sanford to send four large staff tents to Confederate Major Thompson in Corinth, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from M. McAfee in Richmond, Virginia, concerning some type of business transaction.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Lizzie J. Hicks, Secretary of the aid society in Fayette, Mississippi, asking if Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus will furnish linsey for soldiers' clothing.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Jones McElwaine in Holly Springs, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing him of the status of guns being worked on by his company.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Jones McElwaine in Holly Springs, Mississippi, telling Confederate Colonel Bonham he has few of something ready, but will send all possible.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from John L. Henly informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that Ship Island, Mississippi, was attacked by the frigate USS Massachusetts.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. W. Sullivan and Nick Welsh in Corinth, Mississippi, asking for transportation to Manassas, Virginia.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. M. Howry at Oxford, Mississippi, asking if they can have a board meeting on Tuesday the 24th.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. H. Echols to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking him to come as soon as possible.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. B. Money and J. M. Morris in Grand Junction, Tennessee, informing Mississippi Chief of Ordnance, Samuel G. French that 30 boxes of shell and one brass cannon are held up because the Mississippi Central refuses to pay charges.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from H. Fortrus at Charlottesville, Virginia, asking John Blake to inform B. Fortrus that his brother is dangerously ill and he needs to come quickly.
