From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the officers and men of the 4th Mississippi Infantry, State Troops at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting to go home to take care of their families.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the officers of the Fourth Regiment of Mississippi State Troops in Panola County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting leave for the regiment because of disease in camp and the need to gather crops.