From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. List of charges from the Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi State Quartermaster Absolom M. West, for telegrams sent in May 1862.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. List of charges from the Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi State Quartermaster Absolom M. West, for telegrams sent in June1862.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. List of charges from the Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus for telegrams sent in March 1862.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. List of charges from the Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, for telegrams sent in April 1862.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. List of charges from the Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus for telegrams sent in October 1861.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in Vicksburg, Mississippi, informing him that General Braxton Bragg will send seven large torpedoes from Columbus, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General Braxton Bragg in Tupelo, Mississippi, asking him to give orders to send seven large torpedoes that are at Columbus, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major William Richard Hunt at Columbus, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that he can send nothing without orders from General Braxton Bragg.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Braxton Bragg in Mobile, Alabama, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that he will support him whenever certain of the United States Army's movements.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Secretary of War George W. Randolph at Richmond, Virginia, concerning the shipment of arms and men to Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Braxton Bragg at Tupelo, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that there is one regiment near Holly Springs, Mississippi and another on the march to Oxford, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus of General Gustave Toutant Beauregard's turning over of his command for health reasons, and the effort to send more arms to Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General D. E. Twiggs in New Orleans, Louisiana, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that he does not want any additional guns for Ship Island, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Charles Bonner, a surgeon at St. Thomas Hall Hospital in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the additions made to the hospital.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John A. Binford at Duck Hill, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that doctor P. W. Peeples be transferred to the Army of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. J. Stockard at Palo Alto, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, recommending W. H. Baird as a purchasing agent for Washington and Sunflower Counties, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the Board of Police of Itawamba County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that a number of men be exempted from militia duty to aid the destitute.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Colonel John McGuirk, Commander of State Cavalry, to Confederate Lieutenant Morgan, a conscript officer, concerning the transfer of conscripts to the Army of Tennessee.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. Q. Withers in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his efforts to enlist men in North Mississippi for the Mississippi State Militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mrs. L. J. Chambers at Hillsboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have her son in the 27th Mississippi Infantry detailed back to Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert C. Spohn, a Sergeant in the 9th Mississippi Infantry at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking a commission so that he can better take care of his family.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Christopher Tebault at Montgomery, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning taxes owed on a piece of family property near Kosciusko, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mrs. Caroline Glover, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking information on her son, a private in the 19th South Carolina Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from F. P. Pleasants, an officer in Company H, 30th Mississippi Infantry, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking to resign. Includes a recommendation for discharge from G. F. Neil.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James M. Howry at Oxford, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, protesting that more buildings on the Univesity of Mississippi campus are about to be turned into hospitals.