From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mrs. S. Noble to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have her son Patrick Noble, a member of the Confederate 3rd Mississippi Infantry Battalion, furloughed home due to sickness.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Richard T. English, commanding the "Quitman Light Artillery," asking to be attached to a Mississippi regiment.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Captain Constantine Rea at Marion, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus concerning a group of his men who deserted while at Fort Pickens, Florida.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. J. Hooper at the Confederate War Department to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a call on Mississippi to provide 3,000 troops to the Confederacy.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from the citizens of Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a group of men wishing to take part in the attack on Fort Pickens, Florida.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from H. W. McMackin in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus offering to take a military company to Fort Sumter, South Carolina.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. F. Lucker, Confederate Captain of the "Chickasaw Guards," to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting equipment for the company in Houston, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Livingston Mims in Mobile, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the movement of Mississippi troops to Pensacola, Florida.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Constantine Rea at Pensacola, Florida, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the arms used by the "Lauderdale Rifles." (Company F, 46th Mississippi Infantry).