From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. J. Smylie at the parole camp in Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus endorsing Colonel W. W. Witherspoon of the 36th Mississippi Infantry for a promotion to Brigadier General.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. M. Heard at Lauderdale Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting a military exemption for F. S. Kemp, an overseer.