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25 Baxter celebrates his 16th birthday.
October 1863
1	Company E moves to Brandon, Miss.
17	Company E arrives at Canton, Miss.,	and	erects	quarters
for the winter.
December 1863
6	Baxter takes a twenty-six day furlough.
27	Joseph E. Johnston assumes command	of	the	Confederate
Army of Tennessee.
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January 1864
2	Baxter	reports back to his regiment at Canton, Mississippi.
February 1864
12	Loring	reports his	division fourteen miles from Meridian.
14	Sherman occupies Meridian.
24	Adams? brigade serves briefly	under Brig. Gen. S.	W.
Ferguson.
March 1864
4	Sherman?s troops	return to Vicksburg after a damaging,
month-long raid on Meridian.
20	Sixth and Twentieth Mississippi	under Col.	Bob	Lowry	are
ordered to southern Mississippi counties	to	round	up
deserters.
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