From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from F. B. McClelland in Choctaw County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for assistance in completing his device to blow up gunboats.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Captain W. G. Miller at Milldale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have one of his men detailed as a hatter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from citizens of Calhoun County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting that hatter Lelund Davis be exempted from militia duty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from Pike County, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus not to detail any more men from Pike County, Mississippi, into the Mississippi State Militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. E. McClellan in Dry Grove, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to avoid being conscripted as he is a hatter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Letter from A.J. Parker to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking an exemption from military service as he is manufacturing hats for soldiers.