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14	John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln at Ford?s Theater in . Washington, and Lewis Paine wounds Secretary of State Seward.
15	Abraham Lincoln dies, and Andrew	Johnson succeeds to
the Presidency.
16	Baxter with force under Brig. Gen.	Robert C. Tyler are
defeated and withdraw from Fort Tyler near West Point, Ga. Tyler is killed.
17	Baxter goes toward Augusta, Ga.
18	Johnston and Sherman meet near Ralei^gh, N. C.
21	President Johnson and the Cabinet	disapprove Sherman?s
armistice with Johnston and send Grant to North Carolina.
26	Johnston accepts from Sherman the	same surrender terms
Grant offered Lee.
26	John Wilkes Booth is captures and killed by Federal
cavalry near Bowling Green, Va.
26	The Confederate Cabinet meets for the last time at
Charlotte, N. C.
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26	Fifteenth Consolidated Mississippi regiment surrenders and
is paroled.
May 1865
2	Baxter goes from	Augusta into South Carolina for three
weeks camp and rest.
10	Jefferson Davis	is taken prisoner by Wilson?s Union
cavalry at Irwinsville, Ga.
22	Baxter surrenders	and is paroled by Brig. Gen. B. D. Fry at
Hamburg, S. C.
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