1847 - Immigrated to the United States [information from 1900 U. S. Census for Charleston, SC]
1850- ?Lived, Allegany Co., MD (indexed in the 1850 U.S. Census as Hermon Baer)
- School teacher "in his youth"
1860 - Storekeeper, Charleston, SC (indexed in the 1860 U.S. Census as H. Balk)
1861 - M.D. degree, Medical College of the State of South Carolina, Charleston, SC (preceptor: Dr. J. J. Chisolm; thesis: "Stricture of the Urethra")
09/30/1861 - Married, Annadora Hewetson (she died in 1874)
12/04/1861 - 05/03/1862 - Acting Asst. Surgeon [contract physician], 2nd Alabama Hospital, Richmond, VA, at $80/mo.
05/21/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 05/21/1862
05/21/1862 - Ordered to report to the Surgeon General, Richmond, VA
05/23/1862 - As Asst. Surgeon, ordered to report for duty to Surgeon [Paul De Lacy] Baker, in charge of the 2nd AL Hospital, Richmond, VA [S.O. 118/17]
08/16/1862 - Appointed Asst. Surgeon [2nd time], Provisional Army of the Confederate States to rank from 05/21/1862
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as Asst. Surgeon from SC by the Confederate States Senate
12/00/1862 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd Alabama Hospital, Richmond, VA
01/01/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd Alabama Hospital, Richmond, VA
02/02/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd Alabama Hospital, Richmond, VA
03/15/1863 - Ordered to report to the Surgeon General, Richmond, VA
07/00/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, Alabama Hospital [also known as 1st Div. Alabama Hospital & as 3rd Alabama Hospital], Richmond, VA
07/02/1863 - Asst. Surgeon, 2nd Div. Alabama Hospital [also known as 2nd Alabama Hospital]
07/12/1863 - Relieved from duty
07/19/1863 - Stationed as Asst. Surgeon, Winchester, VA
08/30/1863 - Stationed as Asst. Surgeon, Winchester, VA
10/22/1863 - As a Surgeon, ordered to report to Surgeon F. Sorrell, Inspector of Hospitals, for duty, to date from 10/03/1863 [S.O. 251/25]
00/00/1864 - Prepared a "Consolidated table of resections, collated from records in the [Confederate] Surgeon General's Office from June 1, 1862, to February 1,1864" as published by: Chisolm, J. J., A Manual of Military Surgery, Columbia, SC, 1864, p. 377.
02/02/1864 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank from 10/06/1863
02/02/1864 - Confirmed as Surgeon from SC by the Confederate States Senate
12/13/1864 - Appears in list of officers on duty in the Medical Bureau as Surgeon
04/09/1865 - Paroled as "H. Bair" on one list & "H. Barr" on another, Acting Brigade Surgeon, Gen. M. W. Gary's Brigade, Col. A.C. Haskell, Commanding, Appomattox C.H., VA
06/24/1870 - Druggist, Ward 1, Charleston, SC [indexed in the 1870 U.S. Census as H. Barr]
1874 - Practiced medicine, Charleston, SC
11/13/1874 - Wife, Annadora Hewetson Baer, died at sea on way from New York to Charleston, SC
03/01/1875 - Married, Adela Budlond Phin, Charleston, SC (she died in 1891)
06/03/1880 - Druggist, Charleston, SC (living with wife, "Addie", and 2 children)
02/08/1891 - Wife, Adela, died
~1895 - Married, Sarah "Sallie" Walker Pemberton (she died in 1917)
06/09/1900 - Druggist and retired physician, Charleston Co, SC (living with wife, Sallie, and 3 children)
- Member, Methodist Church
- Chairman, Ways and Means Committee, Charleston City Council
01/02/1901 - Died of apoplexy, Charleston, Charleston Co., SC

John Schneider, Anna O'Quinn Richter and Bob Krick provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
07/03/2015. Unpublished database.

The following biographical notes are by Saratoga, the creator of this memorial.

Baer served throughout the Civil War as a surgeon in the 2nd Alabama regiment. He arrived in New York from Germany in 1847 and went directly to Charleston. At one time he was a tutor for the family of General Wade Hampton.