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Baxter?s admiration remained undiminished, and a son of his was named Lloyd in tribute to Tilghman.
The 20th Mississippi, now back to effective strength, was ordered to northern Mississippi on October 8, 3 days after Van Dorn managed to collect his forces at Holly Springs. Pvt. Baxter and the other Handsboro boys in Company E cooked their two-day rations, got the company baggage collected, and waited for the cars to take them north.
Finally on October 10 enough rolling stock was collected, and the 20th Mississippi began its journey to Holly Springs, there to reinforce the scattered, disorganized Confederates under Van Dorn. Grant was busy preparing an overland campaign to take Vicksburg, and Baxter and his comrades were desperately needed to mount a defensive action. But even with this urgency it took three days to move the regiment the 200 miles to Holly Springs.
There at Holly Springs many members of the regiment who had not been captured at Fort Donelson rejoined their companies. These were the soldiers who, on the occasion of the surrender, were sick at or in hospitals, on furlough, on detached service, or on some similar status, or escaped after the surrender and before boarding Universe. When the majority of the regiment was taken north as prisoners of war, other members became temporary casuals and were attached to other Confederate units. Some of these soldiers fought at Corinth in early October though the 20th Mississippi as a regiment did not see action there.
Once in Holly Springs on October 13, Baxter and the 20th Mississippi set up camp and prepared to oppose Grant?s Federal forces concentrated near the Tennessee-Mississippi line. Hardly was the camp in order with messes and fatigue details working properly when new orders from headquarters (prompted by Grant?s buildup of forces and supplies) moved the regiment north to Cold Water in Marshall County near the Tennessee border.
Baxter?s two weeks in Marshall County were ones of discomfort and frustration. Winter had come early in northern Mississippi, with snow by mid-October. Evening campfires were dying embers when Baxter and the rest of Company E were roused from their blankets before daybreak. Breakfast
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