From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Proclamation of Georgia Governor Rufus Bullock, offering a reward for the arrest and extradition of W. B. H. "Nat" Kidd, who is accused of murdering Mary Gray in 1869. The proclamation is certified by Georgia Secretary of State David G. Cotting.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Undated letter offering advice on how to obstruct the Mississippi River to United States Navy gunboats.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Richard T. Archer in Claiborne County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining of local citizens stealing his stock and asking for help from the state.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William H. Varnado at Hancock County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the allegations that Steede's Battalion of Cavalry is made up of "rogues and robbers."
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Rubin Lee in Hancock County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining about the lack of Confederate troops to defend the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. S. Pryor, a conscript officer at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for clarification about provisions of the Conscription Act and whether he has the power to exempt those not specifically mentioned in the law. Document includes a newspaper clipping with the referenced section of the Conscription Act.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas T. Land, a member of the Louisiana state supreme court, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus seeking a position for his son Alfred D. Land in the Confederate Army.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Resolutions from a mass meeting of the workingmen of Massachusetts calling on a peaceful resolution to the current crisis.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. B. Davis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus enclosing a circular calling on Southern governors to save the South from alleged Northern tyranny.
