From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from several citizens of Newton and Jasper Counties, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting the release of James M. Pearce, the only blacksmith in the area, from militia service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas Weldon at Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that Miles T. Brown be detailed to work on construction of a "war steamer" commissioned by the Confederate government. Weldon's letter is witnessed by and sworn before justice of the peace M. A. Jenkins.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. B. Sykes at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for a military appointment for his son, E. Turner Sykes, a soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. S. Hudson at Benton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the impressment of enslaved persons to work on fortifications at Vicksburg, Mississippi.