From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. A. Joyner, Captain in the 3rd Mississippi Infantry, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for a commission to raise a company of cavalry for militia service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from H. L. Jordan in a camp near Waterford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking an exemption from military duty.