From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Cowden at Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his efforts to obtain lead and copper for the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. J. Jones in Napoleon, Arkansas, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking the release of his son from the "Lamar Rifles." (Company G, 11th Mississippi Infantry)