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Appendix A CHRONOLOGY
1860
April 1860
23 Democratic Presidential nominating convention meets at Charlston, S. C.
May 1860
3	Democrats adjourn without a Presidential ticket after the
Deep South withdraws over the slavery plank in the platform.
18	Republicans nominate Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal
Hamlin.
June 1860
18	Democrats reconvene	at Baltimore
22	Anti-Douglas delegates again withdraw from	the
convention.
23	Regular Democrats	nominate Stephen	A. Douglas	and
Herschel V. Johnson. Anti-Douglas Democrats choose John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane.
September 1860
25	Marion Baxter is	13 years old in	Mississippi	City,
Mississippi.
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