From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. F. Smurr in Ebenezer, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking exemption from militia duty as he runs a school.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. F. Smith at Ebenezer, Mississippi, seeking a military exemption for John Garrard, the local blacksmith.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from L. A. Webster at Ebenezer, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking permission to have his overseer take his place in the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from I. M. Dyer in Lexington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking for the return of two escaped criminals hiding in Alabama.