From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from B. Walton in Sardis, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, explaining why he has not furnished enslaved people to work as teamsters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from H. Moseley at Memphis, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the organization of the Pettus artillery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Star Place, Mississippi, by H. Moseley, requesting "Mississippi Buttons" for the Pettus Flying Artillery.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from G. W. Stokes in Hernando, Mississippi, requesting cannon and equipment for an artillery battery being raised in DeSoto County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Alfred Hudson at Panola, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus offering the ""Pettus Flying Artillery"" to aid in the defense of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Alfred Hudson in Panola, Mississippi, requesting that caissons, baggage wagons, forge, and one cannon be sent the the "Pettus Flying Artillery."

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. H. Goldsmith at Saltillo, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting cannon for the "Pettus Artillery."