Status - 40th Indiana - 4th Army Corps - 2nd Division - 2nd Brigade
The focus for General Thomas is returning to East Tennessee, in order to support the forces of Sherman and Grant in the East. He is planning to send the 4th Army Corps, including the 40th Indiana, back to the Knoxville area soon.
Sherman has passed through Columbia, SC and is approaching the North Carolina border by the 1st of March. headed toward Fayetteville. Much of downtown Columbia was burned while the Yankees were there; and the debate about how much of the fire was intentional lasts up to this very day.
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John Baer - Home, Tippecanoe County, IN
Around this time, John and Jenny would have learned that they were expecting their first child, due in August.
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More Information:
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 199-201.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1II, Red River to Appomattox, Shelby Foote, pp. 792-797
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 681-682.
- Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, pp. 758-772.
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XLIX, Chapter LXI, Part I, Correspondence, pp.724-812.
- Events: 1865
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