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Manuscript Collection 1114

Contents:  7 items.

Private, Company I, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry (Union) and resident of Scott County, Arkansas.  Pension application form letters and documents received or submitted by Baxter's widow to the Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions.  Documents include those pertaining to Baxter's divorce from his first wife Matilda in 1869 and an 1863 promotion certificate presented to Corporal Robert D. Harris of Company I, 2nd Arkansas Cavalry (Union).

Donated by Bobby J. Baxter, Traskwood, Arkansas, March 17, 1991.

Processed by Kim Allen Scott, Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas, in September, 1991.