From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Alcorn Collection. Letter from Murray Peyton, secretary of the Mississippi State Senate, to Mississippi Governor James L. Alcorn, informing Alcorn that the Senate had confirmed the accompanying list of county and municipal officer nominations for Harrison and Pike Counties, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. T. Lee in Perry County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his inability to return to his Confederate Army unit, the Confederate 3rd Mississippi Infantry, for health reasons.