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Table of Contents
Forward	iv
Introduction	1
Acknowledgments	4
Chapter 1	-	A Young Patriot Volunteers	7
Chapter 2	-	First Taste of Gunpowder	13
Chapter 3	-	Surrendered at Fort Donelson	25
Chapter 4	-	A Prisoner of War	31
Chapter 5	-	Victory at Fort Pemberton	37
Chapter 6	-	South to Vicksburg	51
Chapter 7	-	Last Mississippi Operations	59
Chapter 8	-	Atlanta and Afterwards	65
Chapter 9	-	The Final Days	75
Chapter 10	-	In Later Life	81
Appendices	A - Chronology	89
B - The Baxter Family	111
C - Sources	117
Index	(to be prepared)	121
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