From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from J. J. Fitzpatrick at the Provost Marshal's Office in Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on four captured African Americans from the United States Navy gunboat Eastport. According to Fitzpatrick's report, Mississippi Militia Captain W. E. Montgomery captured these four persons on approximately November 7, 1863. Fitzpatrick's letter quotes an 1863 letter from E. J. Harris ordering the prisoners to be sent to Cahaba, Alabama, by command of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston. Fitzpatrick states that the prisoners were sent to Cahaba as ordered.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Lauderdale Springs, Mississippi, by James H. Martin, tendering his services to help collect taxes for the Confederate government.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. Reavis in Gainesville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a land deal in Noxubee County, Mississippi.