From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General John Clifford Pemberton informing him a force of 10,000 United States forces left Helena, Mississippi, and was moving down the Mississippi River.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from the firm of Cook and brothers to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning shipment of some machinery.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. D. Morgan in Summit, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning local citizens trading with and spying for the United States forces in the area.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. A. Pierce in Shieldsboro, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning one of his enslaved persons that he leased to the Confederate Navy.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. T. Lee in Perry County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his inability to return to his Confederate Army unit, the Confederate 3rd Mississippi Infantry, for health reasons.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Pearl River, Mississippi, concerning the need for Confederate military troops on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from NOLA by Confederate General Charles G. Dahlgren, concerning the urgent need for defenses on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Melancthan Smith at Columbus, Kentucky to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting winter uniforms for the men of his battery (Smith-Turner's Mississippi battery).
