Status - 40th Indiana - 4th Army Corps - 2nd Division - 2nd Brigade
The 4th Army Corps is in East Tennessee, and will remain there until mid-April.
On the 2nd, General Lee passes the word that Richmond must be abandoned. Confederate President Davis leaves the city that evening. Lee moves west and Richmond is surrendered to Union forces on the 3rd. Battles with high casualties continue to be fought as the armies move west. President Lincoln tours Richmond on the 4th, and on the 8th returns to Washington, D. C.
On the 9th, Lee meets Grant in a private home near Appomattox, VA, and accepts terms for the surrender of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. All Confederate arms are surrendered, but the southern soldiers are allowed to keep their side arms for their journey home. Lee leaves the army on the 10th.
Assassination of President Lincoln
On the 14th, after a full day of government business, President Lincoln and the First Lady attend a play titled Our American Cousin. Actor John Wilkes Booth enters the Lincolns' box and shoots Lincoln behind the ear and leaps down to the stage. Booth races out of the city on horseback, triggering a manhunt that will last several days. Lincoln dies early on the 15th.
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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. 206-211.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1II, Red River to Appomattox, Shelby Foote, pp. 875-988.
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 702-753.
- Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, pp. 818-836.
- Events: 1865
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