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Civil War Soldiers - Baxter
Baxter, Henry, brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born
in Sidney Plains, Delaware county, N. Y., Sept. 8, 1821. He received
an academic education and in 1849 went to California as captain of a
company of thirty men. Early in 1861 he volunteered as a private,
raised a company, and was elected its captain, the company afterwards
being mustered into the 7th Mich. volunteers. On May 22, 1862, he was
promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and, while in command of his regiment,
at Fredericksburg, led an attack upon a company of Confederate
sharpshooters across the river. The sharpshooters were dislodged, but
Col. Baxter was shot through the lung. In March, 1863, he was promoted
to brigadier-general, and participated in most of the battles of the
Army of the Potomac. He distinguished himself at Antietam and in the
Wilderness, in both of which contests he was wounded, besides having
two horses killed under him at the Wilderness. For gallantry at the
Wilderness, Dabney's mill and Five Forks, he was made brevet
major-general of volunteers, April 1, 1865. After the war, from 1866
to 1869, he was United States minister to Honduras. He died in
Jonesville, Hillsdale county, Mich., Dec. 30, 1873.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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