From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Zedekiah McDaniel at Vicksburg, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to come to the Yazoo River and forward all the powder he can spare.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from William B. Weaver at Columbus, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus if he had issued orders to have one fourth of the militia drafted as minute men.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from W. E. Ross at Abbeville, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to have his regiment ordered to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to participate in the coming fight.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from W. D. Lack in Holly Springs, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus if the 3rd Mississippi Regiment had arrived at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from W. A. L. Hommedin in Natchez, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that his message has been delivered to Major Wailes.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Thomas W. Haan in Okolona, Mississippi, asking how much pay was allowed for capturing runaway enslaved people.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Secretary of War George W. Randolph in Richmond, Virginia, concerning a partisan ranger company raised in Coahoma County, Mississippi by Confederate Captain Edward K. Porter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from R. W. T. Daniel in Grenada, Mississippi, asking if Confederate President Jefferson Davis will visit the town as the citizens want to receive him.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from P. L. Phillips in Enterprise, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus he was raising a partisan ranger company and asked for permission to muster them into service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from James Ferrell, the mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that United States Navy warships entered the pass and demanded the surrender of the batteries and property.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Ferrell, the mayor of Biloxi, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that three ships of war entered the pass and requesting 5,000 reinforcements with artillery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major William Richard Hunt at Columbus, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that he can send nothing without orders from General Braxton Bragg.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major L. Wailes in Natchez, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the enemy fleet has withdrawn, but will return in a few days, and asks for more troops and guns.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major L. Wailes in Natchez, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that Natchez, Mississippi will not be surrendered, and asking for artillery and ammunition.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Lunsford L. Lomax, Judge Advocate at Vicksburg, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus he has been summoned to appear as a witness in the defense of Confederate Captain William K. Easterling.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from James McNeill in Meridian, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus what salt is worth per bushel in Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. R. Pitts in Vicksburg, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that he has salt and is needing transportation for it.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from General John C. Pemberton at Grenada, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to call out the militia to defend Columbus, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General John B. Villepigue at Oxford, Mississippi, asking for arms to equip a company for the defense of the state.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in Holly Springs, Mississippi, suggesting that troops be sent to Port Hudson depot or at Tickfaw.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in Holly Springs, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that he is leaving a small force in the town to guard the depot, and asking that 500 state troops be sent there as well.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in Vicksburg, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to order all minute men to Haynes Landing, Mississippi or Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in Vicksburg, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that all United States fleets and troops have disappeared from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in Vicksburg, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the enemy lower fleet and troops have disappeared and gone down river.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Earl Van Dorn at Vicksburg, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus the United States Navy fleet passed the city after dark, and he could not tell what damage was done to them.