From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. H. Hicks to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking an exemption from service in the state militia for Alexander Newman.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mary A. Harper at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the death of Henry Hughes, an officer in the 13th Mississippi Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from a discharged soldier to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing on Robert L. Bates, who is avoiding the draft.