From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from E. M. Blackburn in Corinth, Mississippi, informing Adjutant General William H. Brown he would go to Burnsville, Mississippi, that day and muster in the Burnsville Blues.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. C. Walters at Burnsville, Mississippi, asking to have his company mustered in on the eleventh by A. E. Reynolds.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from G. W. Smith at Burnsville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting money to aid the families of men who have gone off to fight in the war.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. E. Simpson at Burnsville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting commissions for the "Burnsville Blues," (Company E, 17th Mississippi Infantry).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. H. Smith at Burnsville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus asking if the "Burnsville Blues" will be ordered into the field (Company E, 17th Mississippi Infantry).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. D. Morland in Burnsville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting commissions and "Minnie Muskets" for the "Burnsville Blues." (Company E, 17th Mississippi Infantry)