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William Rufus Terrill (April 21, 1834 – October 8, 1862) was a United States Army soldier and general who was killed in action at the Battle of Perryville during the American Civil War. His Confederate brother James was also killed during the same war, making the Terrills one of the few sets of American brothers killed in action while ...
On October 1, having been assigned to the Thirty-third Brigade (General William R. Terrill), Fourth Division (General James S. Jackson), in McCook's Corps, the regiment started on the march under Buell, southward through Kentucky, after Bragg, who had turned back, and up to this time the regiment never had battalion drill, and hardly an attempt ...
Unfortunately for the Confederates, their cavalry reconnaissance withdrew before McCook placed an artillery battery under Lt. Charles Parsons and the brigade of Brig. Gen. William R. Terrill onto the Open Knob, a prominent hill on the northern end of the battlefield. [44]
Captain William R. Terrill - promoted to brigadier general (USV), September 9, 1862 Captain George A. Kensel Lieutenant Howard M. Burnham - acting commander, killed in action at the Battle of Chickamauga on September 19, 1863
The 80th Illinois fell under the command of Brig. Gen. William R. Terrill (33rd Brigade) and Brig. Gen. James S. Jackson (10th Division). Both Terrill and Jackson were ultimately killed in the battle. Parsons' battery position on the Open Knob, 2007.
15th Ohio: Col Moses R. Dickey; 49th Ohio: Col William Harvey Gibson; 32nd Indiana: Col August Willich; 39th Indiana: Col Thomas J. Harrison; Artillery Cpt William R. Terrill. Battery A, Kentucky Light Artillery; Ohio Battery; Pennsylvania Battery; Battery H, 5th U.S. Artillery; Fourth Division MG William "Bull" Nelson [21] 10th Brigade
United States flag with 35 stars, as it appeared after the admission of West Virginia in 1863 until the end of the American Civil War in 1865. The United States Military Academy (USMA) is an undergraduate college in West Point, New York, that educates and commissions officers for the United States Army during the American Civil War.
William R. Terrill (1834–1862), Union Army brigadier general; See also. Attorney General Terrell (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 18 May ...