From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Colonel William Barksdale at Corinth, Mississippi, informing Adjutant General William H. Brown of the companies comprising the 12th and 13th Mississippi Infantry regiments.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John A. Cason in Durant, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting arms and equipment for a local militia company. (Company F, 12th Mississippi Infantry)