Status - 40th Indiana - 4th Army Corps - 2nd Division - 2nd Brigade
The 4th Army Corps is ordered to East Tennessee, and has arrived there by March 15th.
By March 2nd, the Union had gained full control of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia, and General Sheridan was ordered to move south out of the valley toward Lynchburg, VA. Here he would cut the remaining railroads supplying the Confederate army at Petersburg, and also deprive them of an escape route through Virginia and North Carolina. Sheridan was approaching Lynchburg by the 15th.
President Lincoln was inaugurated on March 4th, and gave his Second Inaugural Address, in which he addressed the end of the war and the aftermath.
Sherman was still moving north through the Carolinas, and reached Fayetteville, NC on the 10th. Accomplishing the reduction of that city, he was moving north by the 15th toward Goldsboro, NC. He would soon be engaged with the remainder of the Confederate western army, now being consolidated by Generals Bragg and Joseph Johnston.
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John Baer - Home, Tippecanoe County, IN
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More Information:
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 201-203.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1II, Red River to Appomattox, Shelby Foote, pp. 797-817.
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 682-683.
- Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, pp. 772-783.
- Link: War Operations, see Volume XLIX, Chapter LXI, Part I, Correspondence, pp. 812.
- Events: 1865
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