From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from C. G. Green in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the rank of Confederate Officers who are being mustered.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Morris Rebel at Fayette, Mississippi, to Jones S. Hamilton, asking if a substitute can be received under the 18th section of the Conscript Act.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from A. D. Pickens in Natchez, Mississippi, to Jones S. Hamilton, asking if circuit court clerks and assessors exempt from conscription.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General Jeptha Vining Harris in Columbus, Mississippi, recommending that men in the workshops should be organized and armed for the present emergency.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Eugene Woldemar Hilgard, the State Geologist, informing him he is exempt from conscription.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General James Z. George in Grenada, Mississippi, asking if he is to proceed under a state impressment law.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from A. G. Brown in Richmond, Virginia, asking that Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus not draft his overseer, Robert A. Harrison of Terry, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from William B. Weaver at Columbus, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus if he had issued orders to have one fourth of the militia drafted as minute men.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Undated abstract of the proceedings against a Mr. Trinkle for avoiding conscription into the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from S. B. Crow, President of the Board of Police of Winston County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the drafting of men into the militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. W. Smith in Monroe County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting that his son Byron be exempted from the draft as he was medically unfit for service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus arguing that 16 year olds should not be drafted into the militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. B. Gage, a citizen of Yalobusha County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking for legislation to force more men into the Confederate Army.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. E. Jackson of the 5th Mississippi Regiment, State Troops at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus claiming exemption from service under the Confederate Second Conscription Act's provision about slaveholders.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from L. Haughton at Tibbee, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning a refusal by conscripts to train for artillery service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Colonel William C. Love of the militia at Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking if he has to report to the conscript camp at Enterprise, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from G. D. Moore at Noxubee County, Mississippi,to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for the exemption of his brother, J. G. Moore, from conscription.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from the Headquarters of Mississippi state troops at Tibbee, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a draft of the militia. (Bottom half of letter is missing).

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus at Macon, Mississippi, to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, concerning a number of state units that were conscripted into Confederate service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus at Macon, Mississippi, to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, concerning a number of state units that were conscripted into Confederate service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus at Macon, Mississippi, to General Samuel J. Gholson, concerning a conflict over conscription of state troops by the Confederate Government.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus at Macon, Mississippi, to Confederate General Gideon J. Pillow, concerning a conflict between the State and Confederate Governments over conscripts.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Drane at Bankston, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, complaining that young men in local cavalry companies are evading the draft.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate General Gideon Pillow at Columbus, Mississippi, to General Samuel J. Gholson, concerning a conflict over conscription of state troops by the Confederate Government.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. R. Clark at the Office of Conscription at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning Mississippians drafted into the Confederate Army that belong in the militia.