From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Certificate from Lieutenant H. M. Thompson of the Yazoo Rangers that he had burned 28 bales of cotton belonging to V. M. Cannon.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from V. M. and B. C. Cannon in Satartia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus recommending doctor George F. Mellen for a position as surgeon with the Southern Army.