From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from P. B. Phelps in New Orleans, Louisiana, concerning the Confederate Privateer J. O. Nixon, describing the battle it fought at Horn Island Pass, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Peter Ulrick in Lauderdale County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus offering his services as an experienced sailor to the state of Mississippi.