From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the "distressed condition of the sea coast."

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Shieldsboro, Mississippi, by F. R. Witter, proposing to raise a company of mounted scouts for seacoast defense in Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from F. R. Witter in Shieldsboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing the Governor of the arrest of a free African American named Eli for treason.