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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 ...
By 1915, Terrill School sent 14 of its 33 graduates to Ivy League colleges. [citation needed] The school also fielded an excellent football program, which went 144-23-8 from 1910 to 1932. 19 of Terrill's 23 losses were to college freshman squads. [1] In 1916, Terrill sold his school to a new headmaster, citing health problems.
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
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.
The new school system is known as Alleghany Highlands Public Schools and the two high schools were merged to create a new Alleghany High ... William R. Terrill, ...
[a] After some Confederate infantry snuck up the hill undetected in the woods, Terrill ordered the 123rd Illinois to mount a bayonet charge down the hill, with the raw and outnumbered troops suffering heavy casualties. At about 3:00 p.m., the 80th Illinois were sent in as reinforcements and resulted in a brief stalemate.
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]
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 ...