From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Shieldsboro, Mississippi, by F. R. Witter, proposing to raise a company of mounted scouts for seacoast defense in Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William Clark in Mississippi City, Mississippi, concerning an attack on Ship Island, Mississippi, by the "Steam Ship Massachusetts" (USS Massachusetts).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. E. Lewis at West Pascagoula, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning measures that need to be taken to defend the Mississippi Gulf Coast.