From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Reuben O. Reynolds, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the Van Dorn Reserves had tendered for the new requisition, and to send orders.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. L. Deupree at Brooksville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting as drill instructor for the state militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Salem, Mississippi, by J. W. Matthews, requesting appointment to the cavalry of her son, who was wounded at Manassas, Virginia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Phelan at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting arms for the companies that have been raised from Monroe County, Mississippi.