From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. M. Carlock at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking permission to raise a company of cavalry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas Whitesides, Colonel of the 4th Mississippi Infantry, State Troops at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking payment of wages to his men.