From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. B. Williams in Okolona, Mississippi, asking when his company will be ordered to march and when they will receive guns.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. J. Davenport at Okolona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting a pass so that clothing can be taken to the "Prairie Rifles," (Company C, 11th Mississippi Infantry).