From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Captain R. L. Adams in Goodman, Mississippi, recommending that John Ambrose be appointed to impress African Americans in the county.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the citizens of Holmes County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that Samuel W. Weems be released from military service to work as an overseer.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Susan Cuncliffe and Emily Povall in Lexington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that their husbands be discharged from the military.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from four "ministers of the Gospel" at Lexington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking to be exemped from military service.