Status - John Baer - Home, Tippecanoe County, IN
John Baer had been home for three weeks or so by the end of the year, and was no doubt at the Sunday church meeting on New Year's Day. The next day he would have been back to working on his farm.
On December 15th and 16th, the 40th Indiana was in the middle of another large and bloody battle south of Nashville. What became known as the Battle of Nashville was another Confederate defeat; Hood was forced back across the Tennessee River, and his army fell apart. The Union army pursued the remainder of the Confederate forces through Tennessee and into Alabama and Mississippi.
Sherman has completed his march to the sea, and occupied Savannah as the defenders abandoned the city and moved into South Carolina, where they hoped to find reinforcements. Sherman prepared to continue his destruction moving north through the Carolinas. He did spare Savannah from the torch. but South Carolina cities would not be so fortunate.
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More Information:
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 187-194.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1II, Red River to Appomattox, Shelby Foote, p. 682-731.
- Shrouds of Glory: From Atlanta to Nashville, Winston Groom, pp 224-275.
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 655-670.
- Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, pp. 668-722.
- Events: 1864
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