From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Richmond, Virginia, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the shipment of small arms to Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Navy Lieutenant Isaac N. Brown in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting an anchor and chain for the C. S. S. Arkansas.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Navy Lieutenant Isaac N. Brown, commander of the Confederate C. S. S. Arkansas, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the need for carpenters to work on the pilot house.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Meadville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that no more men be conscripted from Franklin County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the officers of the 6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment at Camp Price near Milldale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, recommending John S. Husbands for the position of drillmaster for the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the citizens of Carroll County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for Mr. Robert Farish to be released from the Mississippi State Militia, as he is a plantation manager.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from Lafayette County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting that C. C. Weber, owner of a shoe factory, not be conscripted.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from officers of the minute men of Madison, Rankin, and Copiah Counties, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining of being ordered to a sickly area.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. B. Smart at Terry, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning suspicious persons passing through the local area.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. Durham, postmaster of Kosciusko, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning money owed to captured men of Company K of the Confederate 4th Mississippi Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. Willoughby at Columbia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning men who have not enrolled in the Mississippi State Militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. P. Guyard regarding a plan to obstruct the Mississippi River with pilings.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Oliver Field in Yazoo County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking an exemption from being conscripted into the Mississippi state militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Major J. A. Cato in Meadville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a draft of men from Franklin County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John H. Lenow in Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a small salt works near that city.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Jane Boykin in Raleigh, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to send her a bag of salt.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James O. Stevens at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting use of a carload of coal to finish the twenty hughes pattern guns being built for the state of Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James H. Laney in Brookhaven, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining about the drafting of men into the Mississippi state militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. N. Davis in Ashwood, Mississippi, to tendering his services to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. J. Smylie, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that he will be unable to return to Jackson, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. Bursery in Forest, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his discharge from the Confederate military.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Isaac Applewhite at Columbia, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning local men who are planting cotton instead of subsistence crops.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Hannah Brown in Lexington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have her son, a Captain in the 10th Mississippi Infantry given a furlough to come home.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from state militia officer Hamilton Cooper in Newton County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking to whom he should send his returns.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from George Kastmer in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for his board to be paid.