From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Note from Leake County, Mississippi, stating that Samuel Houston had authority to arrest all stragglers, deserters, and conscripts.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Robert L. Adams, Captain of a company of state cavalry, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning his orders to arrest deserters in Madison…

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from P. G. Norman, a Sergeant in the 1st Mississippi Infantry State Troops, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning public approval of desertion from…

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Confederate General Tullius Cicero Tupper at Canton, Mississippi, asking if horses can be hired at the expense of the state to hunt down deserters.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Confederate General J. Z. George to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting a court-martial for deserters captured by his command.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from a discharged soldier to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing on Robert L. Bates, who is avoiding the draft.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from John P. Burke to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the hardships caused to the local people because the millers have all been drafted.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from W. H. Worthington to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning local men who were attempting to avoid the draft.

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from D. A. Clark in Kemper County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning the great dissatisfaction with the draft by the local…

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Petition from the citizens of Jasper County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus protesting an illegal draft of local men into the state militia.