From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from John L. Henly informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that Ship Island, Mississippi, was attacked by the frigate USS Massachusetts.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. A. Pierce in Shieldsboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning one of his enslaved persons that he leased to the Confederate Navy.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Livingston Mims in Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the movement of Mississippi troops to Pensacola, Florida.