From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Garrett, Tarpley and Company in Greensboro, North Carolina, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus they were sending a carbine for his inspection.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from the firm of Tarpley, Garrett and Company in Greensboro, North Carolina, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a breech loading rifle they were producing.