From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from N. H. R. Jackson in Selma, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking if Colonel J. W. Garratt of the 20th Alabama Volunteers was killed at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from General Stephen Dill Lee at Morton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, recommending Colonel E. W. Pettus for a promotion to general.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas O. Byrd, an assistant quartermaster at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, enclosing the letter of Edward W. Pettus of the 20th Alabama Infantry.