From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Sharkey Collection. Letter from Captain S. D. Cooper, an officer in the 50th United States Colored Infantry, to Lieutenant Colonel R. S. Donaldson concerning a dispute over ownership of a mule between Mr. Cline and a formerly enslaved person.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from D. G. Cooper, commanding the post at Brandon, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus if he has heard anything about the United States Army raid from below.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Kerr in Brookhaven, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the United States Army is near Summit, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Jones S. Hamilton in Woodville, Mississippi, informing R. L. Tuck that the United States Army is on their way to this point from above and below.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Reuben Davis in Columbus, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus a heavy raid is advancing on Okolona, Mississippi and Aberdeen, Mississippi, and asking for reinforcements.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General John C. Pemberton at Vicksburg, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus he will concentrate his whole army to defeat Union General Ulysses S. Grant.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General John C. Pemberton in Vicksburg, Mississippi, advising Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to remove the State Archive from Jackson, Mississippi, as the United States Army will very likely move on the city.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Abraham Buford in Meridian, Mississippi, asking Confederate General John Adams to keep him advised of the movements of the United States Army from Brookhaven, Mississippi, and telling him to protect the southern railroad at Lake Station.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Colonel John J. Thornton, commander of the Rankin Volunteers at Brandon, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus he heard that Union General Benjamin H. Grierson had been repulsed at Summit, Mississippi, and was retreating.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Colonel James H. Rives in Macon, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the United States Army is reported at Chesterville, Mississippi, and asking for instructions.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from W. C. Harper in Brandon, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the United States Army is in Raleigh, Mississippi, and asking for reinforcements.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from W. C. Harper in Brandon, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus of the preparations made there to guard against United States Army attack.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from U. Bourne in Brandon, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that they will fight the United States Army if they come.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from U. Bourne in Brandon, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the United States Army was four miles west of Westville, Mississippi, at 9 o'clock last night.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. Alex Ventress in Woodville, Mississippi, recommending that the levy be cut below the canal to strand the enemy in the Yazoo Pass.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Samuel J. Gholson in Okolona, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the United States Army that were there have been driven back.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General James Z. George in Grenada, Mississippi, asking if he has any reliable news of the United States Army's movement since they left Newton, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General James Z. George in Grenada, Mississippi, asking for any news of the United States Army on the southern railroad.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General James Z. George in Grenada, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the operator at Vaiden, Mississippi, knows nothing of the United States Army being at Lodi, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from D. Flanery who is three miles east of Newton, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus the United States Army have left going toward Raleigh, Mississippi, or Enterprise, Mississippi, and reporting on the damage done by the raiders.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Captain Charles D. Fontaine in Grenada, Mississippi, reporting on the ambush of a United States transport just below Pecan Point, Arkansas.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in Vicksburg, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that all United States fleets and troops have disappeared from the vicinity of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Earl Van Dorn in Vicksburg, Mississippi, informing Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus that the enemy lower fleet and troops have disappeared and gone down river.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Captain C. H. Johnston in Panola, Mississippi, to General Tullius Cicero Tupper informing him his couriers report 30,000 United States troops opposite Helena, and 15 transports with troops at Delta.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate Major General Leonidas Polk in Memphis, Tennessee, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus for more troops as United States forces are concentrating in Cairo, Illinois.