From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. A. Love, a soldier in the Confederate Army, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking to provide his family with clothing.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. J. Scott in Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking a discharge from the Confederate Army to manage his brother's farm and enslaved people.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Albert G. Brown at Terry, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the Confederate 18th Mississippi Infantry at the Battle of Bull Run, Virginia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from John William Clark Watson at Richmond, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, stating that Confederate Secretary of War James Seddon favors the Governor's appeal, but that he has no power to act.