From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Brumfield at Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking discharge from the 30th Mississippi Infantry to take care of business at home.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. M. Dyer in Lexington, Mississippi, asking that the cavalry company of Confederate Captain J. T. McBee be mustered into Confederate Army service.