From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from G. L. Brown at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, informing Clark that Colonel John J. Pettus has telegraphed asking for 200 guns with equipment.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Telegram from F. L. Brown at Meridian, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark at Macon, Mississippi, stating that Brown had shipped by train two hundred and ten arms with equipment.