From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major B. F. Sutton in Enterprise, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that he is cut off from his regiment, and offering to raise a company for local defense if needed.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major B. F. Sutton in Grenada, Mississippi, concerning a furlough that was promised to the men who were conscripted into the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from officers of the minute men of Madison, Rankin, and Copiah Counties, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining of being ordered to a sickly area.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Captain B. H. Sutton, concerning men taken from his militia company by another unit.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from Captain B. F. Sutton of Company B, First Mississippi State Troops at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, concerning three of his men being detained at Barton, Alabama.