From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. W. Johnson from Neshoba County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting discharge from the "Pickney Volunteers," (Company B, 8th Mississippi Infantry).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the officers of the 8th Mississippi Infantry in camp near Warrington, Florida, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking Pettus's help in securing a transfer to the Mississippi sea coast.