From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Pearl River, Mississippi, concerning the need for Confederate military troops on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from H. S. Dabney at Raymond, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus calling on the Governor to declare martial law.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Gallatin, Mississippi, requesting that suspicious persons travelling through Mississippi be searched in case they are spies.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Patrick Henry on behalf of the Brandon, Mississippi, Committee of Safety, enclosing letter from Doctor John Knowlson, arrested for being disloyal.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Knowlson to the Brandon Committee of Safety, declining to take the oath of allegiance to the state of Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from G. J. Hood at State Line, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus informing the Governor about the McLeod brothers, who were openly loyal to the United States.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Captain P. B. January in Rodney, Mississippi, of a local vigilance committee to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the recent alleged African-American uprising.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Dickerson at Fair River, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a man, Jasper Coon, who has "expressed himself as being a free soiler."
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Louis Martinez in De Soto, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus relating local efforts for defense, aiding families of soldiers, and ferreting out "offenders."
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. Oliver in Hernando, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking arms and equipment for the "Swamp Rangers," a military company to protect the levees.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert B. Foster in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking if the "Volunteer Southrons" will be ordered to march soon. (Company A, 21st Mississippi Infantry)
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Isaac Newton Brown, who just resigned from the U.S. Navy, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus relating how he came home to Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from F. R. Witter in Shieldsboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing the Governor of the arrest of a free African American named Eli for treason.
