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IV Corps (Union Army)
There were two corps of the Union Army called IV Corps during the American Civil War. They were separate units, one serving with the Army of the Potomac and the Department of Virginia in the Eastern Theater, 1862–1863, the other with the Army of the Cumberland in the Western Theater, 1863–1865.
This corps [in the Western Theater] was created on October 10, 1863, from the remnants of XX an​d XXI Corps, both of which had suffered heavy casualties at Chickamauga. It was initially commanded by Gordon Granger and its division commanders were Philip Sheridan, Charles Cruft, and Thomas J. Wood. It served with distinction in the famous unordered attack on Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga, and served in the Knoxville and Atlanta Campaigns. During John B. Hood's Franklin-Nashville Campaign, General William T. Sherman left the IV (and XXIII Corps), under the overall command of General George H. Thomas, to defend Tennessee, and the corps was heavily engaged in the battles at Spring Hill, Franklin, and Nashville. When the force Thomas commanded at Nashville was divided, he was left in command only of the IV Corps and cavalry under James H. Wilson and George Stoneman. The IV Corps was ordered to block the mountain passes and prevent a potential retreat by Lee's army into the mountains.

Records differ regarding the further history of the corps. Two sources[2] report that it was deactivated on August 1, 1865. A third[3] reports that after the war it was sent to Texas as part of the U.S. Army detachment dispatched to persuade French Emperor Napoleon III to withdraw his troops from Mexico, and was not disbanded until December 1865.
per Wikipedia (concerning the IV Corps of the Union Army, emphasis mine)

It [4th Army Corps] moved through Tennessee during April, reaching Nashville on the 27th, and on June 16th, it moved for New Orleans, where it was joined by the detachment of the old 4th. On July 6 it took steamer for Texas, reached Green Lake on the 11th, and remained there in camp for two months, losing many men from the effect of poor water and very hot weather. On Sept. 11 it started for San Antonio, 170 miles, reached Salada creek on the 24th, remained there for two months on provost duty in the city and at various points until May 26, 1866, when it was mustered out at Houston. The total enrollment was 1,300. Loss by death, 148, of which 141 were of disease.
​per The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States 1861-1865, page 392

Leaving Chandlersville, Ohio

4/11 • Tue
come to Newark to day and was mustered in
heavy on the Johnson            & Andy Vane
​trying times
4/12 • Wed
still we live all the           
come to Columbus            Barfight 
​heavy times
4/13 • Thu
answered to roll call                       liberty last night
4/14 • Fri
we went out in town Sat. night, a nice city [Columbus, OH]
4/19 • Wed
close confinement all the time
dang the war anyhow
4/22 • Sat
went out to town and got our pay
had a fight in our barracks [in Columbus, OH]
4/24 • Mon
we was called up this morning
​           Cincinatti, got here after night
4/25 • Tue
we are on our way to leewisville [Louisville, KY]
​got here last night

Nashville, Tennessee

4/26 • Wed
leave here this morn
​come to Nashville
4/29 • Sat
Still hear in libby Prisson it is a shame to use men the way they do hear [Libby Prison was a Confederate prison at Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. It gained an infamous reputation for the overcrowded and harsh conditions under which officer prisoners from the Union Army were kept. Prisoners suffered from disease, malnutrition and a high mortality rate. By 1863, one thousand prisoners were crowded into large open rooms on two floors, with open, barred windows leaving them exposed to weather and temperature extremes.] — per Wikipedia
4/30 • Sun
I came down to the Spring and washed my shirt drawers socks a nice day
5/3 • Wed
have beef for dinner full belly all nite
5/4 • Thu
taking things easy laying around in our tent
5/7 • Sun
had inspection this morning
​dress parade this evening detached to Company C
5/11 • Thu
it is raining I am settling in my tent quite pleasant
5/12 • Fri
very cold last night my feet nearly froze
5/13 • Sat
don nothing this forenoon
washed this afternoon
nasty woman's work
had a dance last night
​made a new table every thing handy
5/15 • Mon
very hot to day
not much relief down at the crick
dance tonight heavy times
5/16 • Tue
I had to cut wood this morning
I wrote a letter this afternoon
we had dress parade this evening
shoulder straps
5/17 • Wed
Out on picket Corporal decker and me
5/19 • Fri
out to help lode forage, rations tonight
5/20 • Sat
hie times charly is on a bender
a good deal of drunkeness going on today
5/21 • Sun
I was at preaching to hear [Chaplain] Randel Ross
5/28 • Sun
kind of tiresome work I am about
           out General Willich was hear
​this evening and talked to the Pays bully
5/29 • Mon
we had good news to day
​we had dress parade
5/30 • Tue
This is a nice day we had no drill this morning
This is            worth soldiering
got a letter from            ​
5/31 • Wed
on guard post No 3
Nice day every thing looks beautiful
I don't feel well to day
News is go to New Orleans
​           ​mustered out
6/1 • Thu
cleaned up my gun
time runs slow
​had ice cream
6/2 • Fri
no drill today
​serenade General Willich to night
6/3 • Sat
we had Brigade drill by General Willich
he was funny he is a funny man
I washed my close [clothes]
I wish it was over
6/4 • Sun
fixing for inspections
all kind of grapevines
church
Charley Reader starts [?]
6/6 • Tue
This is a very hot day We had Brigade drill
hot work dang the war
6/7 • Wed
had inspection of everything
this morning my things past
all rite very hot
we had            ​drill
6/9 • Fri
I am on pickett to day
Jim Warn and John Forsythe
​was over today
6/10 • Sat
nothing to do to day John and me
went to the spring a very hot day
​Get me out of the army
6/11 • Sun
very hot to day had a sleep
​feel kind of bad
6/12 • Mon
drill this morning     watched Willichs
make a speech to our Brigade
​I feel kind of bad
6/13 • Tue
Drill            
Today time runs slowly and I ain't
well to day     Jim & me            ​went for
​water
6/15 • Thu
nice Morning     the Boys was paid off to day
we have orders to move to morrow morning at 4 o'clock

Heading to New Orleans

6/16 • Fri
we are ready to start to Johnsonville, Tennessee
we got heer this evening [from Nashville]
and got on the Boat Pontrack [?]
6/17 • Sat
still heer at Johnsonville
I was out in town to fetch in men
​Capt Willison commanded
6/18 • Sun
we started this morning at day light and are on our way
we got to Padnce [Paducah?] this after noon
slipping around the guards and going up to town
6/19 • Mon
we got to Cairo this morning
Silver Lake     We served
and cooked 1 days rations Start this
evening for the [?] and of [?] pass
Columbus Ky and still go
6/20 • Tue
we have been on the go all day     we past
Memphis this evening about 4 o'clock
​We stopped in Miss and got our grub
6/21 • Wed
One of our boats disabled [That boat was called Echo No. 2, per Wikipedia: In late June 1865, shortly after the conclusion of the Civil War, the sternwheel paddle steamer Echo No. 2 struck Oneida′s prow and sank in the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois, while carrying 300 soldiers of the 13th and 41st Ohio Veteran Volunteer Regiments. The regiments lost rations and a combined 10 horses and 13 mules in the sinking. The soldiers blamed the pilot guiding Echo No. 2 for the accident and beat him.[6]]
6/22 • Thu
We come to Vicksburg this morning
and stopped on the Louisiana Side of the river
use us like dogs
6/23 • Fri
We past Red River this morning
​I am on Guard today     had a big time on shore

New Orleans

6/24 • Sat
we came to New Orleans this morning and landed
six miles below and went in to camp
it is a hard looking place for to live but
​we will have to try and live
6/25 • Sun
up this morning     bad smell of places
I ever saw this beats all I rather be
where I could get a drink of water
​my parching mouth
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