From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. Q. Withers in Byhalia, Mississippi, asking who Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus will appoint to the open Confederate Major General's command.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. K. Marshall at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning his work in building hospitals for Mississippi troops in Virginia.