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November 1860
6	Lincoln is elected President.
9	South Carolina, Baxter?s state of birth, calls a secession convention.
10	South Carolina?s Senators resign from the Senate.
December 1860
20	South Carolina secedes from the Union.
29	Secretary of War John Floyd of Virginia, Baxter?s	first
general officer on the field of battle, resigns.
31	President James Buchanan orders reinforcements	for	Major
Robert Anderson at Fort Sumter.
1861
January 1861
9	Mississippi secedes from the Union.
10	Florida secedes from the Union.
11	Alabama secedes from the Union.
19	Georgia secedes from the Union.
21	Jefferson Davis of Mississippi resigns from the Senate.
26	Louisiana secedes from the Union.
February 1861