From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Newspaper clipping listing Mississippi's state executive and judiciary officers for the year 1859. Included are salaries, terms of office, information on elections, terms of courts, and the times and places that courts are held. (On the obverse, the printed year 1859 is crossed out in two places and the year 1868 notated in pencil on the side).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Commission issued by Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus appointing Walter C. Kearney as First Lieutenant in the "Beauregard Rifles" (Company I, 18th Mississippi Infantry).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Account of expenditures from Mississippi State Geologist Eugene W. Hilgard listings the expenditures of the Mississippi State Geological Survey from August 16, 1860, to March 15, 1861.