From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Samuel Parker at Oakley, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting permission to muster a company into the service of the Confederate States.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and Histroy Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. N. Pittman, a Justice of the Peace, to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus enquiring if he should hold court.