From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General John C. Pemberton concerning a contract for salt with doctor Perkins of Louisiana.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from F. B. Walton at Marietta, Georgia, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining that he had been drafted into the Mississippi militia, even though he is a resident of Tennessee.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. O. Edwards and E. Whaley at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a scheme to trade cotton for salt in New Orleans, Louisiana.