From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Ambrose in Goodman, Mississippi, requesting cloth for the Ladies Aid Society of Richland, Mississippi, to be used for soldiers' uniforms.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from O. P. Anderson at Goodman, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus suggesting that all persons subject to military duty be forced to drill in the militia.