From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James W. McCutchon, a refugee from Louisiana, in Monticello, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the impressment of one of his enslaved persons.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. W. W. Wood at Natchez, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking a commission in the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas T. Land, a member of the Louisiana state supreme court, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus seeking a position for his son Alfred D. Land in the Confederate Army.