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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This historical narrative is in large measure a response to many lineal and collateral relatives who over the years have urged me to write this account of the experiences of Marion Francis Baxter during the War for Southern Independence.
I am indebted to Beulah Baxter Schupp of Hartsville, Tennessee, the last surviving child, whose unparalleled memory of her father and family made it possible. She died	J
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I am grateful for a variety of material from kinsmen over the years. Deceased sons, Marion F. Baxter, Jr. of New Orleans and J. Clay Baxter, my father, of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; son-in-law John Henry Weston of Logtown, Mississippi; and daughters Amelia Baxter Weston, Ella B. Maybin, and Rebecca B. Seal of Bay St. Louis permitted me the use of grandpa?s memoirs, pertinent newspaper clippings, family photographs and letters, scrapbooks, and my grandfather?s copy of The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis.
Grandchildren J. C. Baxter, Jr., Leo W. Seal, Jr., and Virginia Wagner of Bay St. Louis, John W. Baxter of Los Altos, California, the Late J. Roland Weston of Waveland, Mississippi, the late Harold Baxter Weston of New Orleans, Dorothy W.
Robinson of Birmingham, Alabama, and J. York Feitel of Cl4Qrf>0l Htu trville,?Teimesrse?, were gracious and patient in providing germane material. Great grandson John Henry Weston, II, of Lexington, Kentucky, and daughter-in-law Catherine S. Baxter of Pass Christian, Mississippi, now deceased, were most helpful with remembrances.
Collateral relatives,' the late Mrs. Roy Baxter, Sr., of Logtown, Mississippi, /Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Baxter of Longwood, Florida, Henry and the late Lamar Otis of Waveland, Mississippi, the late Coburn L. Weston of Jackson, Mississippi, and
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