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6	Adams? Rifles are mustered at Corinth, Mississippi, as
Company E, 20th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry.
21	First Battle of Manassas ends in a rout of Union forces.
August 1861
23	The 20th Mississippi arrives at Lynchburg, Virginia.
September 1861
10	General Albert Sidney Johnston is given command of	the
Confederate armies in the west.
13	The 20th Mississippi is ordered to Lewisburg, Va.,	and
report to General Floyd.
21	General Lee assumes command in Western Virginia.
25	Baxter is 14 years old.
25	The 20th Mississippi joins General Floyd.
26	The 20th Mississippi arrives Sewell Mountain in	the
Kanawha Valley.
October 1861 ?:?
13	Skirmish at Sewell Mountain (Meadow Bluff).
23	Floyd occupies Cotton Hill in western Virginia.
November 1861
3	Daily skirmishes begin at Cotton	Hill
6	Davis and Stephens are elected	to full	si^c-year terms as
Confederate President and Vice President.
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