From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel J. D. Stewart, Chief of Ordnance at Macon, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, reporting on the condition of his department.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from L. Houghton in Mobile, Alabama, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the gun shop in Aberdeen, Mississippi, will stop work on Monday for want of money.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Win H. Bowen at Union Church, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting authority to make a contract to alter arms for military use.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. M. West at Durant, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the need for $5,000 to keep the gun shop in Brandon, Mississippi, operating.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. A. Sample in Kilmichael, Mississippi, requesting aid in recovering a gun that a Jackson, Mississippi, gunsmith refuses to return to its owner.