From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from D. W. Johnston, an officer in the Hancock County, Mississippi, militia at Gainesville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a raid in the county by the 128th New York Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Allen Rawls at Spring Cottage, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a United States forces raid up the Pearl River to Gainesville, Mississippi.