From the Mississippi Department of Archives and Histroy Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John B. Herring at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus requesting "Mississippi" buttons for the "Cherry Creek Rifles," (Company I, 2nd Mississippi Infantry).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. Marshall McCue in Harper's Ferry, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus offering to sell the state "Virginia Guns" invented by Lorenzo Sibert.