Status - 40th Indiana - 4th Army Corps - 2nd Division - 2nd Brigade
The 4th Army Corps is at Nashville during this time.
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President Lincoln's body reaches Springfield, IL on the 3rd and he is buried on the 4th.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis is captured by Union forces at Irwinville, GA, on the 10th. Davis is escorted to Nashville, and later returned to Richmond, VA.
Commissioners in the trial of the accused in the Lincoln assassination are appointed, and the defendants plead not guilty at the start of the trial on the 12th.
Several smaller Confederate forces in the west surrender. There are still some holdouts in the southwestern part of the country. The Battle of Palmito Ranch is fought in Texas; this is considered the last battle of the war.
The Freedman's Bureau is set up to help refugees and freed slaves; it will also manage lands confiscated by Union forces during the war.
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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. 213-214.
- The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1II, Red River to Appomattox, Shelby Foote, pp. 1006-1065.
- Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, pp. 861-864.
- Events: 1865
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