Appointment

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  ADDITIONAL FACTS OF NOTE
 Military Information
 Age at Enlistment:  33
​ Home Residence during War:   Missouri
 Military Years:      1861-1863
From "Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical register of physicians who served the Confederacy in a medical capacity"
06/19/1861 - Appointed Regimental Surgeon, Missouri State Guard
06/21/1861 - "Asst. Surgeon", 2nd Infantry Regt., MO State Guard
07/06/1861 - "Hospital surgeon", MO State Guard, Carthage, MO
10/29/1861 - Resigned appointment in hospital service (paid $697.32 for 4 mo. & 8 days service on 06/09/1862)
10/29/1861 - Acting Surgeon, 1st MO Infantry (Kelly's), 6th Div., MO State Guard
09/12/1862 - Served, Staff Surgeon, Col. L. A. Pindall's Sharpshooters [9th MO Battalion Sharpshooters]
09/24/1862 - Enlisted, Gen. M.M. Parson's Brigade, MO Volunteers
11/16/1862 - Chief Surgeon, 3rd Division[?MSG], Fort Smith, AR
01/31/1863 - Served in hospital at Fort Smith, AR (?as patient)
03/22/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States (P.A.C.S.)
03/22/1863 - Appointed Surgeon, 9th MO Infantry by Gen. D.M. Frost
03/25/1863 - Senior Surgeon, Frost's Division, camp near Little Rock, AR
04/00/1863 - Surgeon, Sterling Price's Division, Trans-Mississippi Department, Little Rock, AR
04/04/1863 - Appointed Surgeon (P.A.C.S.)to rank from June 13, 1862
04/04/1863 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the CS Senate
04/14/1863 - Senior Surgeon, 4th Brigade, Gen. Sterling Price's Division, District of Arkansas
04/15/1863 - Furloughed 20 days,
04/28/1863 - Major & Chief Surgeon to Brig. Surgeon M.M. Parsons, 4th Brigade, Price's Div., Dist. of AR
06/01/1863 - Organized a hospital at Jacksonport, AR
06/05/1863 - Chief Surgeon, 4th Brigade, Price's Division
06/09/1863 - Charge of neglect of duty was placed against him by Surgeon E. W. Herndon, 9th MO Infantry, near Little Rock, AR, for an incident possibly related to Dr. Baer being ill at the time of the supposed offense. Gen. M.M.
Parsons requested "that trial of this case be had as soon as practicable because I have Baer under arrest on the charges." [Note: The charges must have been dismissed as there is no further mention of them or of any punishment]
07/04/1863 - Chief Surgeon, Gen. M.M. Parson's Brigade(4th), Price's Division
07/06/1863 - Surgeon, Price's Division, Polk Hospital (at Mr. Allen Polk's Plantation near Helena, AR)
07/10/1863 - Chief Surgeon, Brig. Gen. Mosby M. Parson's 4th Brigade, MO Vols., Gen. S. Price's Division
07/28/1863 - Surgeon, Polk Hospital, near Helena, AR
08/16/1863 - Start of a "painful illness" with a "combination of disease" - treated by Confederate Surgeon Andrew N. Kincannon
08/30/1863 - Died of "heart disease", Polk Hospital, near Helena, AR. (Initially buried in Polk Hospital burying grounds. Later exhumed and re-buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick Co., MD       

Personal Information
 Occupation:  Surgeon
 Father:           Dr. Jacob Shellman Baer
 Mother:          Elizabeth Worthington Dorsey
 Spouse:          Priscilla Lewis

​ Last known residence:   
 Cause of Death:      Heart disease

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