From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas D. Harris, an officer in the Confederate 6th Mississippi Infantry, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have L. D. Rhodes take his position as sheriff while he is in the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the officers of the 6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment at Camp Price near Milldale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, recommending John S. Husbands for the position of drillmaster for the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Captain B. H. Sutton, concerning men taken from his militia company by another unit.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. L. Alford in Union City, Tennessee, requesting transportation for new recruits of the 6th Mississippi Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Tom F. Pettus, captain of the "Morton Pine Knots," (20th Mississippi Infantry) requesting one of his men be released from state service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Sarah Coombs at Helena, Arkansas, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, reporting on soldiers hospitalized in Nashville, Tennessee. Coombs also encloses a list of hospitalized soldiers and asks Pettus to publish it.