Governor John J. Pettus of Mississippi, honoring the request of President Davis of the Confederacy, issued a proclamation requesting that the state militia provide fifteen hundred infantrymen to serve the new Confederate Army. This was a simple undertaking since at the start of the crisis up to eighty militia companies had been accepted for state service and were under arms. The governor had difficulties, in fact, finding the militia duties and suffered severe criticism from his Military Board. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc. (New York: G.P.Putnam, 1861), I: 19.
Robert W. Dubay, "Mississippi," in Wilfred Buck Yearns, ed., The Confederate Governors (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1985), 115
Robert W. Dubay, "Mississippi," in Wilfred Buck Yearns, ed., The Confederate Governors (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1985), 115
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