From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Colonel W. R. Miles at Port Hudson, Louisiana, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting assistance in obtaining clothing for his troops. Miles states that his agent cannot procure clothes or shoes in Louisiana and asks Pettus to authorize the agent to obtain them in Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Vice President of Southern Railroad Company M. Emanuel to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus regarding exhibitors sending freight to the Mississippi state fair.