From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. A. Joyner, Captain in the 3rd Mississippi Infantry, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for a commission to raise a company of cavalry for militia service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Colonel D. J. Brown at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning attempts by other officers to recruit his men (36th Mississippi Infantry).