From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William K. Holland at Burkettsville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking for an exemption from military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. H. Weatherby in Burketsville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking if boys under age 18 can serve in the Confederate Army.