From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. B. Washington in Indian Bay, Arkansas, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking a surgeon's position in the Confederate Army for his brother James.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. A. Winston, cousin of Pettus, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting a position in the Southern Army as surgeon for doctor Jas. Washington.