From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Major William R. Hunt at Selma, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking to buy old burnt sheet copper for use of the nitre and mining bureau.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Cowden at Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his efforts to obtain lead and copper for the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from D. S. Pattison at New Liberia, Louisiana to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the seizure of a steamboat being used to haul salt.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Captain Hugh Sticer of the "Dixie" Steamer at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a trip to the salt mines.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from New Orleans, Louisiana, by Charles G. Johnson, concerning a plan to issue currency with a value based on cotton and tobacco.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from R. M. Lengler to Colonel J. M. Kennard, informing him that Colonel Wright is in Augusta, Mississippi, and asking that he buy coal at any price.