From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Chisholm in Woodville, Mississippi, informing Jones S. Hamilton that one three-masted vessel passed Bayou Sara, Louisiana, 12 o'clock last night, and two gunboats at 11 this morning.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. List of charges from the Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi State Quartermaster Absolom M. West, for telegrams sent in May 1862.