From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the officers of the 5th Mississippi Infantry, State Troops to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking to be allowed to go home.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert Hollingsworth at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking to be released from militia duty to run his grist mill.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Captain Montgomery Carleton of Company A, 5th Mississippi Infantry, State Troops, at Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus complaining about the conduct of Colonel Burgin.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from citizens of Newton County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that H. W. Partin of the 5th Mississippi Infantry, state troops, be exempted from service.