From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from Mary A. Christian at Forrest, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor Charles Clark, concerning the impressment of her overseer into the Mississippi militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Clark Collection. Letter from A. S. Livermore, superintendent of the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad at Grenada, Mississippi, to Chief Impressment Agent F. S. Blount at Mobile, Alabama, regarding Blount's plan to impress enslaved persons to work to repair the railroad. Livermore complains about twenty day terms of impressment and states that railroad work requires persons who understand the business. He suggests impressing persons from Yalobusha, Tallahatchie, and Panola counties, Mississippi, for terms of no less than three months.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Rachel Kirkwood in Carroll County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking to have her overseer, J. B. Farmer, discharged from the state militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. A. Orr at Gainesville, Alabama, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking to pay the $500 exemption fee to keep his overseer out of the military.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. R. Clark and Richard D. Sorenn at the Office of Conscription at Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the exemption of B. F. Doster as he is an overseer for two plantations.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from George H. Harris at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, requesting an exemption from military service for William H. Cook, General Jeptha V. Harris' overseer.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from M. R. Clark at the Office of Conscription in Enterprise, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a new law regarding exemptions for overseers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from C. W. Field at the Confederate Bureau of Conscription to Commandant of Conscripts regarding exemptions for overseers.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from G. J. Rains, at the Confederate Bureau of Conscription, to Commandant of Conscripts concerning the exemption of overseers from military service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from citizens of Chickasaw County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus complaining that there are not enough white men left to oversee the enslaved population.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James Fort at Holly Springs, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking an exemption from militia duty for D. M. Crum, an overseer.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Edward C. Eggleston at Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that his overseer be allowed to remain on the plantation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Dan B. Humphreys, a soldier in Hughes battalion of cavalry, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus seeking to have his overseer detailed from the militia back to his plantation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mary B. Carter, seeking the Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus' help in obtaining an overseer for her plantation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Edward W. Pettus in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have Thomas P. Jordan, an overseer, released from militia duty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Mrs. I. N. Davis at Tibbee Station, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking that her overseer be released from the militia.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Willie Lyons at Jackson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that his overseer, Armistad Taylor, be released from militia duty.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. C. Pattison at Port Gibson, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that his overseer be detailed from the militia back to his plantation.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William J. Brent in Holmsville, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking for exemption from militia duty as he was an overseer for several local families.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Thomas W. Harris in Columbus, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting an exemption from militia service by his overseer Irwin T. Hancock.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John Handy in Canton, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have Robert Williams exempted from militia duty to work as overseer on the plantation of Mrs. Davis.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Lydia Hodges in Okolona, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking to have her overseer, Mr. Bolding, released from Militia service.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from E. H. Hicks at Fayette, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, seeking an exemption from military service for Thomas Evans, an overseer.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from Harrison to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to be exempted from military service as he has three plantations to take care of and no overseer.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Frances Blocker and Charity Clements at Olive Branch, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that their overseer, "Mr. Eason," be allowed to stay and not return to his unit.