From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Thomas W. Harris, Lieutenant Colonel of Ashcraft's Regiment, to Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey at Washington, District of Columbia, requesting his assistance in freeing the Mississippi field officers held at Johnson's Island Prison at Ohio.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate Colonel R. A. Smith of the 10th Mississippi Infantry at Corinth, Mississippi, asking if his regiment is full.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Albert L. Peel, Adjutant of the 19th Mississippi Infantry, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting permission to raise a company of "independent scouts and guerrillas."
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from General Samuel J. Gholson at Aberdeen, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to call out the militia to defend Northern Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. Q. Withers in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his efforts to enlist men in North Mississippi for the Mississippi State Militia.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James L. Finley, Confederate Captain of Company C., 10th Mississippi Infantry, at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking permission to raise a calvary company.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. O. Grigsby at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus seeking release from a Confederate cavalry company to be surgeon for the 10th Mississippi Infantry.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Asahel Six in Vicksburg, Mississippi, seeking a discharge for his underage son, James, from the 10th Mississippi Infantry.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. B. Sykes at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for a military appointment for his son, E. Turner Sykes, a soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia.