From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. T. Kennedy at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking to have Michael Sagiton discharged from the militia as he is a wool carder.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. M. Hardin, Superintendent of the State Penitentiary at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a thief named Rives being held under confinement.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William Wren at Liberty, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning the trade of salt and coffee for cotton.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John B. Nevett in Natchez, Mississippi, requesting a pardon for Patrick Fitzgerald, an inmate at the Mississippi State Penitentiary.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William H. Nugent in Greenville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking to raise a company made up of Irish workmen.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William H. Nugent to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus urging the Governor to recruit Irish levee workers in Washington County, Mississippi, into the army.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from G. W. L. Davidson in Oakland, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting the arrest of John Collins for murdering an Irishman named Twomey.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Phelan in Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting the clemency of a young enslaved boy who was about to be executed.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from an anonymous "Abolitionist" to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus warning of an alleged plot to overthrow the governments of Mississippi and Louisiana by Northern men, Irish, and free African Americans.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. Letter from Samuel Readus at Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames, concerning the murder of Irish laborer James McClung in Hazlehurst. Readus requests that Ames issue a proclamation to offer a reward for the apprehension of the perpetrators.
