From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the officers and men of the 4th Mississippi Infantry, State Troops at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting to go home to take care of their families.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from an unnamed refugee from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining that Confederate General John C. Pemberton is the wrong man to defend Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Sheriff of Adams County, Mississippi, Woodson McCurty, to O. Metcalfe, asking that he not take the men working at the tannery of Mr. McCowen.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. W. Humphries, Commander of Post at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Jeptha V. Harris, requesting that R. A. Murdock be exempted from militia duty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Sheriff W. M. Haley of Copiah County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining about large planters charging high prices for their produce.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. L. Lowry at the headquarters of the Pettus Rangers, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning some soldiers that Faulkner demanded to be returned to his command.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. J. Priddy, an officer in the 4th Mississippi Infantry, State Troops at Grenada, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning Unionist "Tories" in Itawamba County, Mississippi, raiding families loyal to the Confederacy.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. C. Falkner, Commander of the 1st Mississippi Regiment, Partisan Rangers, to Jacob Thomson, concerning his efforts to raise the regiment.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. Alex Stuart at Richmond, Virginia to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the state of Mississippi's attempt to obtain salt from the firm of Stuart, Buchanan and Company.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas H. McCowen at Washington, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that his enslaved people not taken to work on the fortifications at Port Hudson, Louisiana.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. W. Land at Rocky Point, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the request for exemption from militia duty of James Craft, a tanner.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. Hillyer, a Quartermaster, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that Robert E. Lennard, a gunsmith in Canton, Mississippi, be exempted from militia duty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Rufus R. Rhodes at Richmond, Virginia to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that Pettus find a job for Samuel C. Fisher, a refugee from New Orleans, Louisiana.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Richard Phillips, an inmate in the city jail at Vicksburg, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to get him out of prison.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Reuben Davis at Aberdeen, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for an exemption from militia duty for Phillip J. McNairy.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. S. Hudson at Benton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the impressment of enslaved peoples to work on fortifications.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. E. Leonard at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for an exemption from militia duty as he is a gunsmith and over 50 years old.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from R. A. Murdock at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting a discharge from the militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Phil H. Gully at Dekalb, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that the militia be sent home to take care of their families.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Attorney General T. J. Wharton at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning Henry Taylor of the 16th Mississippi Infantry, who was convicted of alleged theft.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Major Green L. Blythe of the 5th Battalion of the Mississippi State Troops, to Major General T. C. Tupper, asking to be allowed to swap prisoners with the United States Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mrs. L. M. Edwards at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that her husband, a soldier in the 3rd Infantry, be sent home.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from L. Houghten at Columbus, Mississippi, to W. W. Humphries, concerning the discharge of R. A. Murdock.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John C. Humphreys containing a list of enslaved peoples at Claiborne County, Mississippi, naming their enslavers and where they have been sent to work.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John C. Humphreys at Port Gibson, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning enslaved people being sent to work at Port Hudson, Louisiana, and Vicksburg, Mississippi.