From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Howard W. Wilkinson at Pearlington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning deserters hiding out on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William H. Varnado at Hancock County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the allegations that Steede's Battalion of Cavalry is made up of "rogues and robbers."

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from August Kleinhempel at Harrison County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have three workers from his tanyard be exempted from military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from West Pascagoula, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus of the suffering of the people on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi.

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 the citizens of Marion County to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that the cavalry unit stationed nearby be removed for gross misconduct.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Pearl River, Mississippi, concerning the need for Confederate military troops on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.