From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Peter Crosby in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Mississippi Lieutenant Governor A. K. Davis, describing a violent riot that occurred in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on July 4, resulting in multiple deaths.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Copy of a letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, informing him that Vicksburg, Mississippi, had surrendered. One of the letters is in code.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Copy of a letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus in Jackson, Mississippi, to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, informing him that Vicksburg, Mississippi, had surrendered. One of the letters is in code.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. A. O'Neal in Hickory, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking a commission to form a Confederate military unit composed of Choctaw Native Americans.