From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from R. Cooper at Brandon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning his two sons in the Confederate Army who were indicted in Simpson County, Mississippi, for alleged murder.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from D. W. Lamkin, a lieutenant in the 1st Mississippi Light Artillery, at Opelika, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, asking that an enslaved person be released from jail.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Adjutant General John Logan Power at Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, accepting the position of Superintendent of Army Records for the state of Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. A. Klein at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Adjutant General William H. Brown, asking for an order for his son, G. M. Klein, to go to Pickens, Mississippi, and join his company.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Major Ed A. Calfrey giving a list of Mississippi regiments and their field officers from 1 - 27.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General John B. Villepigue at Oxford, Mississippi, asking for arms to equip a company for the defense of the state.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Samuel E. Dudley, a soldier in the 1st Mississippi Infantry, State Troops in Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting permission to join Abbay's battery.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. B. Wallace, a member of Wither's Light Artillery, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking for a discharge as he is a miller.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Z. Pepper at Deasonville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that his son in poor health be allowed to stay at home and not have to serve in the military.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Sallie B. Harris at Bovina, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that one of her five sons in the Confederate Army be sent home to take care of the family farm.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Landy A. Lindsey, a member of Withers Light Artillery, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus offering to build torpedoes for the government.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to G[eorge] W. Randolph, the Confederate Secretary of War, outlining why Mississippi state troops should not be drafted into Confederate service.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James E. Matthews at Senatobia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a cotton burning expedition led by Confederate Captain Matthews, Commander of the Senatobia Rangers.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Charles G. Johnson at Tupelo, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking for transfer from the Washington artillery to Wither's regiment of Mississippi artillery.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Sarah Stowers and Fannie Fauntleroy in Washington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that their husbands be released from Confederate military service.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert S. Hudson at Benton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning his appointment as Circuit Judge of the 5th District.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert Bowman at Yazoo City, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking if the state can provide cannons to an artillery company being raised in the county.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. M. Vaiden in Jackson, Mississippi, concerning the uniforming and equipping of military companies being raised in the local area.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. S. Hudson at Benton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the impressment of enslaved persons to work on fortifications at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Certificate from several United States Army officers verifying the quality of firearms provided by J. W. Tackanie and Co.
