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16 Fifteen thousand Confederates, including Private Baxter and 453 men of the 20th Mississippi, are captured as Brig. Gen. Simon B. Buckner unconditionally surrenders Fort Donelson to Grant. 19 Baxter and major portion of prisoners sent to Camp Douglas, Illinois via Cairo and Mississippi River. 22 Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as permanent President of the Confererate government. April 1862 6 Albert Sidney Johnston is killed at Shiloh, Tenn., and P. G. T. Beauregard takes command. June 1862 27 General Braxton Bragg replaces Beauregard in command of the Confederate Army of Mississippi. July 1862 22 A cartel, providing for prisoner exchange, is signed by the North and South. August 1862 1 Baxter?s name appears on Roll of Prisoners of War at Camp Douglas. September 1862 2 Baxter?s name appears on Roll of Prisoners to be excnahged. S7
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