★ ★ Terry, Alfred Howe

Alfred Howe Terry
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Born: November 10, 1827

Birthplace: Hartford, Connecticut

Father: Alfred Terry 1802 – 1860

(Buried: Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut)​

Mother: Clarissa Howe 1803 – 1874

(Buried: Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut)​

Education:

1838: Graduated from Hopkins School​

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Attended Yale University Law School​

Occupation before War:

1849 – 1854: Attorney in New Haven, Connecticut​

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1854 – 1860: Clerk for Connecticut State Supreme, & Superior Courts​

Civil War Career:

1861: Raised the 2nd​ Connecticut Infantry Regiment​

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1861: Colonel of 2nd​ Connecticut Infantry Regiment​

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1861: Led his regiment at the First Battle of Bull Run, Virginia​

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1861: Organized 7th​ Connecticut Infantry Regiment in New Haven​

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1861 – 1862: Colonel of 7th​ Connecticut Infantry Regiment​

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1862 – 1865: Brigadier General of Union Army, Volunteers​

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Union Army Commander of Morris Island, South Carolina​

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1863: Heavily involved in the Siege Operations in Charleston, South Carolina​

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1863: Union Army General at the Battle of Grimball's Landing​

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1864: Served in the Battle of Proctor's Creek, Virginia​

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1864: Served in the Bermuda Hundred Campaign​

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1864: Served in the Battle of New Market Heights​

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1864: Served in the expedition against Fort Fisher​

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1864: Brevetted Major General in the Union Army​

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1865: Union Army Commander at Second Battle of Fort Fisher​

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1865 – 1886: Brigadier General, United States Army​

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1865: Promoted to Major General in Union Army, Volunteers​

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1865: Union Army Commander against Wilmington, North Carolina​

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1865: Participated in the final Stages of the Carolina Campaign​

Occupation after War:

1865 – 1886: Brigadier General, United States Army​

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1868: Helped negotiate the Treaty of Fort Laramie​

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1866 – 1869: United States Army Commander in Dakota Territory​

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1869 – 1872: Military Governor of Third Military District​

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1869 – 1872: Strong Opponent against the Ku Klux Klan​

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1872 – 1882: United States Army Commander in Dakota Territory​

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1876 – 1877: Commander of U.S. Army marching to Montana Territory​

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1877: Went to Canada to negotiate with Sitting Bull​

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United States Army Commander of Montana Territory during the Nez Perce War​

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1878: Member of Commission to reinvestigate Fitz John Porter​

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1881: Terry Montana was named in his honor​

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1886 – 1890: Major General of United States Army​

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1886 – 1890: U.S. Army Commander, Military Division of Missouri​

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1888: Applied from Discharge from U.S. Army due to disability​

Died: December 16, 1890

Place of Death: New Haven, Connecticut

Age at time of Death: 63 years old

Burial Place: Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut

 

[Luke Freet]

One of those great generals the Union managed to find late in the war. Responsible for the successful assault on Fort Fisher.

 

[Pollaco]

For his successful role in the taking of Fort Fisher he was awarded the Thanks of Congress on January 24, 1865 .

 

[Pollaco]

He was George Custer's superior officer when the Battle of Little Big Horn occurred.

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy Birthday Major General Alfred Terry! Salutes remembering General Terry on his birthday.

 

[Pollaco]

Col. Terry's unit , the 7th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, was also brigaded with the 7th New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment. Both regiments were jointly called the "77th New England".

 

[USS ALASKA]

Promotion Anniversary

28 Aug 1864

Union General Alfred Terry is promoted from brigadier general to major general of the United State Volunteers. A native of Connecticut, Terry studied law and became a clerk of the New Haven Superior Court before the war. He was a colonel in the Second Connecticut when the war began, and his regiment fought at the First Battle of Bull Run. Terry and his regiment fought at Port Royal, South Carolina, in the fall of 1861. He spent the next two and a half years fighting along the southern coast. For his service, he was promoted to brigadier general and given temporary command of the captured Fort Pulaski in Georgia. At the end of 1863, Terry was assigned to General Benjamin Butler's Army of the James. He participated in the early stages of the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, before his promotion to major general, and assumed temporary command of the Tenth Corps when General David Birney died of malaria. At the end of 1864, Terry participated in an attempt to capture Fort Fisher in North Carolina, a stronghold that protected the approach to Wilmington, the Confederacy's most important blockade-running port. Led by General Benjamin Butler, the expedition was a dismal failure. General-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant was so disappointed with Butler that he removed him from command and placed Terry in charge of the next attempt. In January 1865, Terry teamed with Admiral David Porter to make another attempt on Fort Fisher. Porter's ships shelled the fort, and Terry led nearly 10,000 troops on multiple attacks that effected a surrender by the Confederate garrison inside. Terry went on to a distinguished postwar military career. He commanded the Department of Dakota in the late 1860s, then took over the Department of the South during Reconstruction. He returned to the Department of Dakota, and he was the overall commander of the expedition that resulted in the massacre of George Custer and his entire command at the Battle of the Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876. Terry retired in 1888, and he died in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1890 at age 63.

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[Luke Freet]

Been reading up on Terry recently for the Battle of Fort Fisher.
Terry was an excellent brigade and division commander. Probably the highlight I've found around Petersburg was Fussell's Mill, where his men, including his old brigade, breached the rebel line.
Terry also handled the Second Battle of Fort Fisher near flawlessly. Some miscommunication between him, Porter and the naval infantry commander Breese, but otherwise, he handled the operation excellently.

 

[USS ALASKA]

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Birthday

10 Nov 1827

Alfred Howe Terry (d.1890), Major General (Union volunteers), was born. Alfred Howe Terry was born in Hartford, Connecticut. After attended Yale Law School in 1848, he withdrew from the Connecticut bar, and served as clerk of the New Haven County Superior Court until the Civil War. When the war began, he joined the Union forces, and commanded the 2d Connecticut at the First Battle of Bull Run. Terry recruited troops for three years, and took part in the capture of Port Royal, South Carolina and Fort Pulaski, Georgia. Promoted to brigadier general on April 26, 1862, he led a corps in the in the operations against Petersburg and Richmond. He was part of the force that tried to capture Fort Fisher, North Carolina. Later placed in command of the effort, he succeeded in capturing the fort and sealing off the Confederacy's last port on the East Coast, Wilmington. Terry won a Thanks of Congress for this achievement, and was promoted to major general of volunteers, and brigadier general in the Regular Army, as of January 15, 1865. He spent the last section of the war in the Carolinas in the Army of the Ohio, under Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman. After the Civil War, Terry led a department in the West and fought Native Americans. After serving on the military board that reexamined the Fitz John Porter casein 1878, he was promoted to major general in the Regular Army in 1886; one of the few people to obtain that rank in the volunteers and the Regulars without having attended West Point. Terry died on December 16, 1890, in New Haven, Connecticut.

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