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 John C. Humphreys to General Samuel J. Gholson asking for permission to muster a company of cavalry from Jefferson County, Mississippi, into service.