From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mary L. Hull at Greenwood, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for her husband, William Hull, be discharged from the Mississippi Militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the officers of the Fourth Regiment of Mississippi State Troops in Panola County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting leave for the regiment because of disease in camp and the need to gather crops.