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Confederate rank and file honored at Beauvoir unveiling of Baxter Memorial
By ELLIS CUEVAS A bronze and marble lemorial honoring Marion rancis Baxter of Logtown in ancock County was edicated on the grounds of eauvoir, The Jefferson Davis hrine in Biloxi, Nov. "8 near le Tomb of the Unknown
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The ..^rmorial was unveiled ■f Baxter’s only surviving lild, Mrs. Otto E. Schuff; -andson J.C. Baxter and useph York Feitel.
Baxter lived at the Con-rierate Soldiers Home at eauvoir intermittently from ine 1923 until his death at ogtown in 1928.
Baxter family members articipating in the memorial xlieation included grandson eo W. Seal Jr., eincee; in-Dcation by Mrs. Fred agner, granddaughter; ilute to the Confederate Flag ! Mrs. Paul V. Lacoste, *eat nddaughter; and ;nedicnon by Mrs. Dorothy eston Robinson, grand-lughter.
A wreath presentation was ade by great-grandsons I-eo illiam Seal III, and Wallace ;e Seal; great-great-■andsons Lionel Francis axter III and John Patrick axter.
Baxter joined the confederate forces at Hansboro, Miss, at the age of 13 on May 5, 1861 with the Adams Rifles.
He fought in major battles of the Civil War in Virginia, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
The confederate soldier was captured at Dover, Tenn. and served as a POW at Camp Douglas, Chicago.
He was released as an exchange prisoner at Vicksburg in 1862. The soldier then returned to battle until his surrender at Hamburg, S.C. on May 22, 1865.
The dedicatory address at the unveiling was given by his grandson Lionel Francis Baxter of Bay St. Louis.
In the memory of his grandfather, Lionel Baxter said, a biography is being written by a kinsman, Sam J. Ervin Jr., former North Carolina senator.
•‘Biographies of the military and naval chieftains of the Southern Confederacy abound. There is a paucity, however, of narratives which recount the wartime experiences of those who served in the rank and file,” Ervin notes in his work.
DIRECT DESCENDANT—Mrs. Otto E. Schupp, center, is the only survivor of the ten children of Marion Francis Baxter, who was reared in the Pearlington-Logtown area and now resides in Hartsville, Tenn. Mrs. Schupp, nephew J. C. Baxter, left, and son Joseph York Feitel unveiled a bronze and marble
memorial honoring her father who served with the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. He lived at Logtown and Beauvoir intermittently from June, 1923 until his death at Logtown in June, 1928. (Photo by Ed Fayard Jr.)
BAXTER DESCENDANTS—Among the Baxter descendants participating in the unveiling of the memorial in honor of Vlarion Francis Baxter, were, from left, Robert Schupp Jr., J. Z. Baxter Jr., Mrs. Paul V. Lacoste, Mrs. Leo W. Seal Jr., Lionel F. Baxter, Mrs. Pete Porter Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Allen Robinson, Mrs. Dorothy Weston Robinson, Joseph York Feitel,
Mrs. Fred Wagner, Hansel Baxter, Mrs. Otto E. Schupp (Beulah Emily Baxter), Leo W. Seal Jr., Mrs. Lionel Baxter, and Mrs. Joseph York Feitel. Those in the front row are Lionel Baxter III, Wallace lA'e Seal, Leo W. Seal III, and John Patrick Baxter. (Photo by Ed Fayard Jr.)
CONFEDERATE SON MEMOR LA I /—Leo Seal Jr. was the emcee for the unveiling of bronze and marble memorial in honor of his grandfather Marion Francis Baxter at Beauvoir, The Jefferson Davis Shrine. The memorial to Baxter is located next to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The memorial was accepted by Col. Newton W. Carr Jr., superintendent of Beauvoir. (Photo by Ed Fayard Jr.)