From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the state troops stationed at Milldale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that they be disbanded and allowed to go home.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Major Van F. Swearingen, commanding officer of the Amite County, Mississippi, militia, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus giving a report on enslaved people impressed to work at Port Hudson, Louisiana.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Verona, Mississippi, by M. G. Anderson requesting a "Stay Law" on deeds of trust, preventing such debts from being collected.