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Bowling Green, Kentucky, where Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston was attempting to stem the advance of two Federal armies threatening southern Kentucky and Tennessee. The 20th Mississippi and the other regiments in Floyd?s brigade left Dublin Depot on Christmas Day, 1861, and Private Baxter had to put aside any hopes for a milder South Carolina winter.
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