From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Captain Goodwyn Nixon at Paulding, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, requesting permission to raise a company in south Mississippi for local defense.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Henry Carre and D. W. Johnston at Gainesville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the inability of local forces to arrest absentees and deserters in Hancock County, Mississippi.