From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Secretary of War James A. Seddon in Richmond, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus enclosing a letter from A. S. Montgomery concerning a possible insurrection by enslaved people.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. Brooke in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus recommending J. L. Mclendon for collector of customs.