From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from W. E. Ross at Abbeville, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to have his regiment ordered to Vicksburg, Mississippi, to participate in the coming fight.

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. E. Ross at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting that Confederate Captain Randall's company be sent to Confederate Colonel Shelby's regiment.