From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. D. Ogletree and men of the 36th Mississippi Infantry at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting the Dr. G. E. Longmire be excused from service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. G. Harper at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing Pettus that Captain Ogletree's and Captain Rogers' companies had been mustered.