From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Captain McCardle in Fayette, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus if men and officers between the ages of 18 and 40 are exempt from militia conscription.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General James Alcorn in Union City, Tennessee, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that he is moving his command to Grenada, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Dan B. Humphreys, a soldier in Hughes battalion of cavalry, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking to have his overseer detailed from the militia back to his plantation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Richard T. Archer to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting that Doctor H. Ring be exempted from militia service. He also mentions an arsenal explosion at Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. W. Crump at Sardis, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking a position in the state militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from George P. McLean requesting equipment for a cavalry company (Company F, Wirt Adams Cavalry) being organized in Claiborne County, Mississippi.