From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Lieutenant J. M. Peeler in Company I, 5th Mississippi Infantry at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to transfer a man from the militia to his company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John M. Simonton at Shannon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus enclosing report of the election of officers to the "Mississippi Invincibles" of Itawamba County, Mississippi.