From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from William M. Pollan to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey concerning his efforts to organize a pro-Union militia in Choctaw County, Mississippi. (Including rosters of all the militia in Choctaw County)
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from L. Brewer in Leake County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking if a company of Choctaw Indians would be received into the Confederate Army.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Benjamin Duckworth in Taylorsville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the raising of a military company for the army. (Company A, 8th Mississippi Infantry)