From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Captain G. W. Ryan in Barrancas, Florida requesting a commission for James M. Kennedy in Company G of the Confederate 8th Mississippi Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Bovina, Mississippi, by Edwin A. Cochran, a former member of the Vicksburg Light Artillery, trying to get back pay due him.