Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Stanley's Corps - Wagner's Division - Lane's Brigade
On the 21st, Hood begins to move his army toward Columbia, TN. Union troops at Pulaski must therefore move north to unite with the rest of the army in the Nashville area. As below, Wagner's division has moved to Lynnville, TN on the 22nd. Union forces plan to initially unite at Columbia.
Sherman was continuing his march across Georgia and was approaching Milledgeville, GA which at that time was the state capital.
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John Baer Diary Entries - text in white, comments in blue. - November 19th to 22nd.
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DIARY ENTRY - Saturday, November 19th, 1864 - No Entry.
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DIARY ENTRY - Sunday, November 20th, 1864
Received orders to be ready to march the following morning at 9 o’clock A.M., also a detail for picket if we did not march. Wrote a letter home. Weather disagreeable in the extreme - incessant cold rain and mud too deep to mention, for I should be considered as given to exaggerations.
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DIARY ENTRY - Monday, November 21st, 1864
Guard mounting at the usual hour, notwithstanding preparations were being made for a march in case we were called on at the appointed hour. As the pickets were starting out, they were met by a courier who turned them back - at this point we began to feel positive of a move - but imagine our great joy when a few moments after, another courier came with the intelligence that we would not march, and as satisfactory evidence that he was in earnest ordered out the picket.
Weather colder and snow falling instead or rain. Grows colder in the afternoon and gets below the freezing point. Report comes to camp that the baggage has come, and being anxious to get out of the service, which great act could not be accomplished without the books, I was prevailed upon to go to the depot and ascertain if the books were there, and if so, to bring them - but to my chagrin, I found them not. Was informed that they would be in sometime during the evening, which consolatory news I carried to the camp.
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DIARY ENTRY - Tuesday, November 22nd, 1864
Marched at 8:00 A.M. Arrived at Lynville about 1 o’clock A.M. Bivouacked in the woods, built log fires and set up for the night.
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John continues his efforts to be discharged from the service, as his enlistment is up, at the same time as the army is headed toward a battle with Hood's army.
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More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XLV, Chapter LVII, Part I, Correspondence, pp.943-994.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 185-186.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1II, Red River to Appomattox, Shelby Foote, p. 654-655.
- Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville, Winston Groom, pp 121-128.
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 645-647.
- Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, pp. 660-663.
- Events: 1864
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