Trivia 9-3-19 Two Men

[Trivia Master]

These 2 West Point Cadets, both future Union Generals, were involved in a fist fight after one threatened to use a bayonet on the other after being upset at the tone of an order issued.

Name these 2 men.

credit: @Ole Miss

 

[hughes]

Sheridan and Terrill

 

[hughes]

ADDENDUM: if more detail is required Sheridan is Phillip Sheridan and Terrill is William Terrill

 

[General Casey]

Phil Sheridan and William Terrill

 

[Stone in the wall]

William Terill - Phil Sheridan

 

[Kurt G]

Phil Sheridan and William R. Terrill.

 

[SWMODave]

William Terrill and Phil Sheridan

Source

 

[DBF]

The two men are: Philip Sheridan (1831-1888) got his Irish up (so to speak) when William R. Terrill (1834-1862) gave him an order to line up and he swung his bayonet on Terrill.
Philip Sheridan: Union General (Famous Figures of the Civil War Era), by Dynise Balcavage

 

[gentlemanrob]

I have researched can come up with nothing

 

[captaindrew]

Philip Sheridan and William Terrill

 

[FarawayFriend]

Philip H. Sheridan and William Terrill

Philip Henry Sheridan, Union General - Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States

Philip Henry Sheridan, Union General - THE UNION - Secret Lives of the Civil War: What Your Teachers Never Told You about the War Between the States - by Cormac O'Brien

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Edit - Seems as though attacking a fellow cadet with a bayonet wasn't enough to get Sheridan suspended, but punching him without first addressing him as "sir" was unforgivable.

hoosier

 

[Wallyfish]

I am going with Philip Sheridan and William Terrill.

Sheridan chased Terrill with a bayonet. Both were Union Generals. Seems to check all the boxes.

Source

 

[ErnieMac]

Philip H. Sheridan and William R. Terrill.

 

[Big Sarge]

William R Terrill
Philip H Sheridan

 

[Eagle65]

Sheridan and Terrill.

 

[Michigander]

The two Cadets were:

Philip Sheridan and William R. Terrill
Source

 

[Brenal]

William Ludlow and Peter M Ryerson ( although I cannot find any evidence that Ryerson made General rank)

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[Mike Serpa]

William R. Terril and Phil Sheridan

 

[James N.]

I believe Phil Sheridan and William Terrill are your men; Sheridan was held back for a year and had to graduate with the class following his. Both fought in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky where Terrill was killed, but they had made amends before that.

 

[WJC]

These 2 West Point Cadets, both future Union Generals, were involved in a fist fight after one threatened to use a bayonet on the other after being upset at the tone of an order issued.

Name these 2 men.

credit: @Ole Miss

Philip H. Sheridan (1831-1888) and William R. Terrill (1834-1862).While at West Point, Sheridan threatened to run Terrill through with a bayonet because he thought Terrill had insulted his religion and ethnicity on the parade ground the previous day.
Both men graduated in the Class of 1853.