From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from Pike County, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus not to detail any more men from Pike County, Mississippi, into the Mississippi State Militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from two members of the Confederate 40th Mississippi Infantry in Lauderdale, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to be transferred to a guerrilla company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. W. Little in Scooba, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting that he not be called out for Mississippi State Militia duty, as he is the only man at home.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. J. Britton in Ingleside, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, protesting against the militia in Issaquena County, Mississippi, being called to duty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. H. Worthington in Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning local men who were attempting to avoid the Confederate draft.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. H. Garland in Summit, Mississippi, to Confederate General W. N. R. Beall, seeking a Confederate military exemption for Mr. Lee, a gunsmith.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. E. Ross to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a request for conscripts to replace the losses of Confederate Company H of the 39th Mississippi Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. Cooper in Coffeeville, Mississippi, calling Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus's attention to the depredations of the United States Army soldiers in the Yazoo River Valley.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from T. W. Baker in Okolona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning his petition to be relieved from Confederate military duty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. S. Smith Smith County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting information on who is exempt from the draft.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert Muldrow to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, giving his receipt for 100 pistols to arm the men of his Confederate company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Reuben Friday in Camp Maxey near Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting discharge from the Confederate 27th Mississippi Infantry to work in his tanyard.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. C. Farrar in Okolona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting bounty money for the "Kemper Fencibles," Confederate Company K of the 43rd Mississippi Infantry.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. A. O'Neal in Hickory, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking a commission to form a Confederate military unit composed of Choctaw Native Americans.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Pierre S. Layton at the Ordnance Office in Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, recommending that pistols furnished by Platt and Farrish be rejected.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Ozias Osburn Crystal Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the efforts of a Mr. Jacobs to extract salt from the dirt.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General Earl Van Dorn requesting permission to send Confederate Captain Tyler's company to Coahoma County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mayor W. G. Freeman of Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, forwarding donations to help the sufferers of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Lieutenant Colonel Philip Frank Liddell in Manassas, Virginia, to L. P. Walker, recommending J. E. Deupree of the Confederate 11th Mississippi Infantry for a commission.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Hamer to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning how long the men in his command will have to serve in the Mississippi State Militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from L. T. McKenzie in Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking if he can accept a substitute for a sick man in his Confederate command.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Julia M. Spencer in Terry Station, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that her husband Gilbert Spencer be detailed from his regiment because of sickness.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John W. Boyd in Shell Mound, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning local African American enslaved persons who allegedly stole guns and ran off from their plantation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the "suffering condition of the people" in Hancock County, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Francis Hamtramck Claiborne, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the "distressed condition of the sea coast."