From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Franklin Smith at Jackson, Mississippi, to Confederate Brigadier General Wirt Adams, asking that the distillery of Passmore and Saunders be allowed to remain open.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Confederate Captain J. M. Archer, the post commander at Canton, Mississippi, to Confederate Captain A. T. Bowie, reporting that the Passmore and Saunders distillery still had been confiscated but not destroyed.