From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Q. Smith in Selma, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a request for the arrest of Charles Gaines, a fugitive from justice.

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.