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By Kathy Pierce
The Lionel Baxter Document Collection will be exhibited Nov. 1 through 11 at the City-County Public Library in Bay St. Louis.
The collection includes documents, engravings, pictures, china, and original editions; mainly from the Civil War period. Mr. Baxter has a particular interest in old documents pertaining to the 20th Mississippi regiment of the Confederate army. His grandfather, Marion Francis Baxter, served with the regiment from 1861 through 1865, he joined Company "E" in Handsboro at the age of 13 years and 8 months, after running away from home. When Marion Baxter walked home from South Carolina in 1865, he was not yet 18 years old.
The earliest item in the collection	is a	1691
signature of	William	Penn,
and there are signatures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and	many	other
officers of the Confederacy, including most of the commanders of the 20th Mississippi Regiment.
There is a 1780 map of South Carolina and Georgia made by the mapmaker to the King	(George	III),
showing the holdings of the original proprietors, among which were Mr. Baxter's family.
Also on exhibit will be the ten plate set by Lennox -depicting scenes of the Civil War, which were made in a limited edition and sold to finance the construction of the Conferate Museum of Richmond, Virginia.
There are many more documents, pictures, maps and commemorative med-
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als ^ and ?, C,oins * ofv a ^ Directors ; contemporary ^nature.	Beach cornpany;?oneof the
Lionel Baxter has'been '-Jg nation?s largest operators of & ; collecting these^documents
for more than 40 years. He has now. retired from the *&Stqirer. Broadcasting Com-^vpany,' where' he ' was ? * formerlythe > head of .. Washington division . He is ??fpresentty on the Board of
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radio and television stations and cable TV systems.
, V'. MrT Baxter is very active in- civic affairs and is a . _f member??of the Knights of (S, Columbus, Bay St. Louis;
Metropolitan Dinner Club of ./...the Gulf Coast; Diamond-
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.,ihead Country Club; Ci' ' ? War Round Table, Jackso ??... the'Hancock County Hi ._*> torical Society; the Sons > ^.Confederate Veteran Gulfport; a member of tl .f,. Advertising and Publ Relations Committee of tl ?j. Freedoms Foundatioi
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Valley Forge; and a former member of the Communications Committee of the United States Chamber of Commerce.
The display may be seen from 10 a.m. Monday November 1, but will formally open with a reception in Mr. Baxter s honor on^ Nov. 1, in the Crawford Room at the
., Library from 7 to 9 p.m. The
public is most welcome.