John Jones Pettus was born on October 9, 1813, in Wilson County, Tennessee, to John Pettus, a farmer, and his wife Alice Taylor (née Winston) Pettus....

Pettus and Alice Taylor Winston, a brother of John J. Pettus, and a distant cousin of Jefferson Davis. Pettus was educated in local public schools, and later...

J. McRae lived in exile. Colin J. McRae Collection, Columbia, South Carolina: South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum "McRAE, John Jones...

Governor John J. Pettus faced internal party challenges and criticisms for military handling. Despite discontent and potential withdrawal, Pettus persisted...

governor of Mississippi John J. Pettus defeated the independent candidate Harvey W. Walter. On election day, October 3, 1859, John J. Pettus won the election...

January 16, 1852. p. 2. Retrieved March 20, 2023. Sobel 1978, p. 812. "John Jones Pettus". National Governors Association. Retrieved March 15, 2023. "Gov....

Cincinnatus Lamar William Porcher Miles Edward A. O'Neal Edmund Pettus John J. Pettus, Governor of Mississippi, who would lead the state in secession...

Sir John Pettus (1613–1690) was an English royalist, politician and natural philosopher. Pettus was an expert on metallurgy and became a deputy governor...

Jones - played four seasons in the National Basketball Association. John J. Pettus - 23rd Governor of Mississippi; moved to Scooba at age 22. "2020 U.S...

telegraph to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus informing him that he was available to serve the state. On January 27, 1861, Pettus appointed him a major general...

(1879–1972) – newspaper editor, historian, poet John J. Pettus (1813–1867) – 20th and 23rd Governor of Mississippi John S. Roane (1817–1867) – 4th Governor of...

soldiers of the 18th killed at Ball's Bluff was John Pettus, the son of Mississippi governor John J. Pettus. In his after-action report of the battle, Col...

The Edmund Pettus Bridge carries U.S. Route 80 Business (US 80 Bus.) across the Alabama River in Selma, Alabama, United States. Built in 1940, it is named...

Edmund Pettus (1821–1907) was a U.S. Senator from Alabama from 1897 to 1907. Senator Pettus may also refer to: John J. Pettus (1813–1867), Mississippi...

Mississippi Today. Nonprofit Mississippi News. Retrieved March 13, 2023. Pettus, Emily Wagster (January 10, 2020). "7 of 8 statewide officials inaugurated"...

Confederate units "Letter from Thomas W. Harris to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; March 24, 1860". The Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi...

Quitman Lynch McNutt Tucker Brown Matthews Quitman Guion J. Whitfield Foote Pettus McRae McWillie Pettus Clark Sharkey Humphreys Ames Alcorn Powers Ames Stone...

Retrieved 22 March 2024. "Letter from T. A. Graves to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 24, 1861". The Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi...

fire in 1875. In 1862 he sent a letter to the governor of Mississippi, John J. Pettus, pleading for the governor to use his "influence with the Secretary...

sugar plantations in Jamaica and was an outspoken anti-abolitionist. John J. Pettus (1813–1867), 20th and 23rd Governor of Mississippi, enslaved 24 people...

York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0-19-505707-4 Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press...

musician Michael Peterson, novelist, criminal John J. Pettus, 23rd Governor of Mississippi (1859–1863) John M. Pickard, actor Landon Pigg, singer Vada Pinson...

Nashville, a house built in 1858 on land she had inherited from her grandfather, John Boyd, a congressman for the Republic of Texas. The land and house later became...

on the first day of the session aged 30 or 31. He wrote to governor John J. Pettus on November 25, 1862. Scales died in 1866 and was buried on April 2...

session's end. With the victory of Abraham Lincoln, Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus convened the state's congressional delegation to recommend a policy...

Cavalry Maj. John J. Pettus (former Governor of Mississippi), organized September 1864. 4 companies. Unattached cavalry companies led by: Capt. W.A.J. Boon Capt...

Mississippi State Senate John J. Pettus served as governor for the intervening five days. McRae was sworn in on 10 January 1854. "John J. McRae: Twenty-first...

Jackson, served in the Mississippi State Senate, was born in Preston John J. Pettus, 23rd Governor of Mississippi, previously represented Kemper County...

Governor John J. Pettus; February 23, 1861". The Civil War and Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi. Retrieved 19 May 2024. "Letter from Major John H. Miller...

from Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asked for 10,000 volunteers to enlist in the Army on September 28, 1861...