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20	Baxter is exchanged on board Steamer Jno. H. Done near
Vicksburg, Miss.
25	Baxter celebrates his 15th birthday in Lloyd Tilghman?s
brigade and Major General Erl Van Dorn?s army of the West.
October 1862
4	Rosecrans defeats Van Dorn at Corinth, Miss.
November 1862
2	Grant launches a campaign from the Tennessee border to capture vicksburg, Miss.
11	Company E arrives at Tippah Ford on the Tallahatchie
River in Mississippi.
December 1862
1	Company E leaves Tippah Ford for Grenada.
3	Skirmish at Spring Dale bridge.
4	Skirmish occurs at Water Valley.
5	Tilghman skirmishes with Federals at Coffeeville.
7	Company E encamps east of Grenada.
20	Van Dorn destroys Grant?s supply depot at Holly Springs,
Miss., halting his advance on Vicksburg.
20	Sherman leaves Memphis and heads down the Mississippi
River for Vicksburg.
29	Sherman?s attack on Chickasaw Bluffs	above Vicksburg is
repulsed.
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