From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the "Mississippi Scouts" to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking him to order the company back to Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Major Thomas C. Fearn, Quartermaster of Confederate General Smith's division, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have enslaved people detailed to work on fortifications.