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19	Sherman repulses Johnston?s attack at Bentonville, N. C., and the Confederates retreat toward Raleigh.
22	Maj. Gen. James	H. Wilson launches	a sweeping cavalry
raid into northern Alabama.
23	Sherman occupies	Goldsboro, N. C.
23	Baxter, still in	Selma, is active	in	destroying all
Confederate materiel.
28	Lincoln discusses	peace terms with Grant	and Sherman on
board the River Queen at City Point, Va.
April 1865
2	Wilson?s Federal cavalry captures	Selma, Ala.
3	Baxter arrives at Montgomery.
7	Grant and Lee enter into correspondence	leading	to
surrender.
9	Lee surrenders the Army of Northern Virginia	to Grant at
Appomattox Court House, Va.
9	Twentieth is consolidated with other Mississippi regiments
as the Fifteenth.
12	Wilson?s Union cavalry captures Montgomery.
12	Federal troops enter Mobile.
12	Baxter participates in skirmish	at Chattahoochee	River
near Columbus, Ga.
12	At Greensboro, N. C., Johnston tells Jefferson	Davis that
further resistance is impossible.
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