Status - 40th Indiana - 4th Army Corps - 2nd Division - 2nd Brigade
The 4th Army Corps is in East Tennessee on the 15th, and returned to Nashville on the 22nd.
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Sherman and Johnston meet on the 18th in North Carolina and agree to surrender terms. The agreement goes far beyond the Confederate surrender and into postwar political decisions; Sherman is criticized heavily at the North for going beyond terms similar to what Grant and Lee agreed upon.
President Lincoln's funeral is held on the 10th, and his body lies in state in the Capital rotunda until the 21st, when it is placed on board a train that will cross the country with many stops, ending in Springfield, Illinois, where Lincoln will be laid to rest.
John Wilkes Booth is tracked through Virginia and is trapped in a barn. The barn is set on fire, and Booth is shot, dying soon after. A commission is set up to oversee the trials of those accused in the attacks on President Lincoln and others in his cabinet.
Jefferson Davis remains at large and is attempting to get across the Mississippi in order to continue the Southern resistance; by May 1st, he is in South Carolina. The largest remaining Confederate forces in the West agree to surrender.
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John Baer - Home, Tippecanoe County, IN
The funeral train of President Lincoln continues across the North and by May 1st is leaving Indianapolis at midnight bound for Michigan City. The train would have passed along the old railroad route through Thorntown, Colfax, Clark's Hill, and Stockwell then into Lafayette in the early morning hours.
One would think that somewhere along the route through Tippecanoe County, John Baer might have watched as the funeral train slowly moved past toward Lafayette.
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More Information:
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. pp. 211-213.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1II, Red River to Appomattox, Shelby Foote, pp. 988-1006.
- Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, p. 753-848.
- Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, pp. 836-861.
- Events: 1865
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