From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Wallace B. Scurr, a former member of the 15th Mississippi Infantry who was wounded at Fishing Creek, Kentucky (Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky), to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking appointment to a job.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. B. Wilbourn in Torrance, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning an investigation of the account books of the Mississippi Central Railroad.