From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. R. Bridges in Scullyville in the Choctaw Nation (Oklahoma) to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning allegiance of the Indians to the Confederacy.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William B. Trotter in Quitman, Mississippi, seeking commission as a Major General in the State Volunteers.