From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from the Quartermaster's Department T. C. McMackin at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting cartridge boxes, cap pouches, and bayonet scabbards.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate General Samuel G. French informing the Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus of a leave of absence to tend to matters on his plantation.