From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Captains W. A. Trotter and S. C. Pearson to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting permission to enlist conscripts into their companies (7th Mississippi Battalion).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William F. Dowd at Camp Quitman in Fernandina, Florida, giving an account of the travels and service of the 24th Mississippi Infantry.