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Terry was born in Hartford, Connecticut, 1827, the eldest son of Alfred and Clarissa (Howe) Terry. He was a descendant of Samuel Terry who settled in Springfield, Massachussets, in 1650.
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Two of the most important source documents of the 19th century Indian wars. General Alfred Terry was the commander of the Yellowstone Expedition that ended in the death of George Armstrong Custer and 261 of his men. Terry's official report is included in this book and is a document used by virtually all Custer writers. Also included is the field diary Terry kept while on expedition. It begins in mid-May, 1876 and ends in August. Noted are incidents of Custer and Reno acting without authority or against orders.
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Major General Alfred H. Terry is primarily known (by very few people) as the commander of the 1876 Yellowstone Expedition against the Sioux Indians that resulted in the disastrous defeat at the Little Bighorn, costing George Armstrong Custer and over 200 of his men their lives. But Terry was a stalwart field commander in the American Civil War and would go on to be the only non-West-Point general of the Indian Wars. In this short but very interesting account, Terry's command of an important event of the Civil War is related. Terry's own official report is included, as well as Arthur Osborne's analysis of why the battle was important. The fall of Fort Fisher is an event portrayed in Steven Spielberg's great film, "Lincoln." As Lincoln and Stanton wait in the War Department telegraph office for news of the assault on Fisher, Lincoln tells a humorous story of Ethan Allen in London.
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Terry was born in Hartford, Connecticut, 1827, the eldest son of Alfred and Clarissa (Howe) Terry. He was a descendant of Samuel Terry who settled in Springfield, Massachussets, in 1650.
He entered the Yale Law School in 1848, but on admission to the bar the following year left without graduating.
He was clerk of the superior court of New Haven County, 1854-60. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War he was commissioned colonel of the 2nd Connecticut Militia, a three months' regiment, and participated in the first battle of Bull Run. On the expiration of his service, he returned to Connecticut, and with Joseph R. Hawley soon raised the 7th Connecticut Volunteers for three years or the duration of the war. Terry was commissioned colonel and Hawley lieutenant-colonel. This regiment took part in the capture of Port Royal, S. C. , in November 1861 and subsequently in the bombardment, siege, and capture of Fort Pulaski, Ga. , April 10-11, 1862.
On April 25 Terry was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. After the attempted advance on Charleston across James Island had been turned back by the repulse at Secessionville, June 16, he was stationed for some months at Hilton Head, taking part in the action at Pocotaligo Bridge, S. C. , Octobet 22. On October 29, 1862, he was placed in command of the forces on Hilton Head. To supplement the naval operations of Rear Admiral Samuel Francis du Pont off Charleston, in the summer of 1863 the army under Gen. Quincy Adams Gillmore, in cooperation with Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren, conducted a siege of Battery Wagner, Morris Island, S. C. Terry's command was sent on a diversion up the Stono River to James Island, whence it soon returned and advanced along Morris Island to reënforce the siege. Later in 1863, Terry was transferred to the Army of the James under Gen. B. F. Butler, and during 1864 was engaged mainly in operations against Richmond and Petersburg. On August 26, 1864, he was brevetted major-general of volunteers. After the failure of Butler's expedition against Fort Fisher, N. C. , in December 1864, Grant assigned the same task to practically the same military forces under Terry, adding only one small brigade and a siege train which was not used. On January 15, 1865, the fort was taken by a series of assaults after severe bombardments by the fleet under Rear Admiral David D. Porter. Terry's report, dated January 25, 1865, is the most detailed and comprehensive description of that action. He was advanced as of January 15, 1865, to brigadier-general in the regular army and received the thanks of Congress with particular reference to the capture of Fort Fisher.
Following that supreme accomplishment of his military career, he occupied Wilmington, N. C. , in cooperation with J. M. Schofield and soon thereafter started with the X Corps to join Gen. William T. Sherman, then coming up from Georgia. A junction was made near Goldsboro, N. C. , and for a time Terry and his corps served under Schofield in the Army of the Ohio.
On April 20, 1865, he was commissioned major-general of volunteers. After the war Terry was mustered out of the volunteer service, and in 1866, as a regular officer, assumed command of the Department of Dakota, with headquarters at St. Paul and later at Fort Snelling, Minn. In 1869 he was transferred to the Department of the South, but in December 1872 was returned to the Northwest, where he continued at the head of the Department of Dakota during the exploration of the Black Hills in 1874 and the Sioux war, taking the field in personal command of the expedition from Fort Abraham Lincoln on the Missouri River in Dakota to the Yellowstone-Big Horn region of Montana in the summer of 1876.
The disaster to the force under Gen. George A. Custer at the Little Big Horn, June 25, 1876, led to a controversy as to whether or not Custer had disobeyed or exceeded Terry's order of June 22, but Terry never made any statement on that point, preferring (it is generally believed) to accept responsibility and criticism rather than create an issue.
On March 3, 1886, he was advanced to the full rank of major-general, and on April 9 was placed in command of the Division of the Missouri, with headquarters at Chicago. He was retired for disability, April 5, 1888.
Terry was a thorough student of the science and art of war. He never wrote for publication outside of numerous official reports of a high order. After retirement, he returned to New Haven, where he died.
He was one of very few Civil War volunteer officers who reached the highest permanent rank in the regular army; for a considerable time he was the first general officer on the army list not a West Point graduate. A full length portrait of him hangs in Memorial Hall, Connecticut State Building, Hartford.
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Terry was a member of several boards and commissions, notably the Indian Commission created by Congress in 1867 to treat with the Plains Indians.
He was about six feet in height, straight, vigorous, and active. A conspicuous trait was his ability to cooperate with superiors, equals, or subordinates.
He was unmarried.
