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Letter from Lieutenant W. A. Mitchell to General J. Z. George; April 5, 1863
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Lieutenant W. A. Mitchell, 4th Mississippi Infantry, State Troops, to Confederate General J. Z. George requesting leave for 20 days to go home…
Letter from William Scott to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; February 27, 1863
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from William Scott to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking the Governor to provide Mississippi soldiers with better quality food to eat.
Petition from the soldiers of the 1st Regiment, Mississippi Minute Men, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; January 23, 1863
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the soldiers of the 1st Regiment, Mississippi Minute Men, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus protesting their transfer to Confederate service.
Letter from General Daniel Ruggles to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; December 16, 1862
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that the state militia be called out to deal with a United…
Letter from J. J. Smylie to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 21, 1862
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from J. J. Smylie to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning United States forces movements against Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Telegram from General Gustave Toutant Beauregard to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 10, 1862
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Gustave Toutant Beauregard in Tupelo, Mississippi, informing him that all soldiers that do not have sick leave or furlough must be…
Letter from A. V. Ellis to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; March 21, 1862
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from A. V. Ellis and the citizens of Sardis, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking if he will institute a draft for additional soldiers to…
Letter from James A. Hoskins to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; November 5, 1861
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James A. Hoskins in Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi, concerning the pay due to soldiers of the Brookhaven Light Artillery by the state of Mississippi.
Letter from James R. Gates to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 8, 1861
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from James R. Gates, a soldier in the "Tallahatchie Rifles," (Company F, 21st Mississippi Infantry), to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus asking if he can…
Telegram from Susan Phipps to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; May 6, 1861
From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Susan Phipps at Natchez, Mississippi, asking that Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus release her son Henry from service with the Adams Light Guards as…