From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. T. Simms in Woodstock, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, introducing doctor J. A. Warren of Coahoma County, Mississippi, who was seeking a Confederate Army commission.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. T. Simms at Woodstock, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking for troops to be sent to Leflore County, Mississippi, to repel the United States forces Yazoo pass expedition.