From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. E. McClellan in Dry Grove, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to avoid being conscripted as he is a hatter.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Dry Grove, Mississippi, asking if Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus can deliver a load of clothing to soldiers in the 18th Mississippi Infantry.