Henry Dwight Terry
| Henry Dwight Terry | |
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Henry Dwight Terry
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| Born |
March 16, 1812 Hartford, Connecticut |
| Died | June 22, 1869 (aged 57) Washington, D.C. |
| Buried at | Clinton Grove Cemetery, Macomb County, Michigan |
| Allegiance |
United States of America Union |
| Service/branch |
United States Army Union Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1865 |
| Rank |
 Brigadier General
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| Commands held |
5th Michigan Infantry 1st Brigade, 1st Division, VII Corps 3rd Division, VI Corps Johnson's Island |
| Battles/wars | Siege of Suffolk |
Henry Dwight Terry (March 16, 1812 – June 22, 1869) was a United States Army Brigadier general who fought in the American Civil War.
Terry was born in Hartford, Connecticut. Despite his roots in New England, he moved to the state of Michigan as a young man, where he studied law and later practiced in Detroit.
Terry took an active interest in military matters. When the Civil War began, he recruited and organized the 5th Michigan Infantry, becoming its colonel on June 10, 1861. During the war's first winter, he and his regiment served in the defenses of Washington D.C..
Throughout the 1862 Peninsula Campaign, the 5th Michigan was attached to Brigadier General Samuel P. Heintzelman's III Corps, Army of the Potomac. It sustained heavy losses at both Williamsburg and Seven Pines, and in mid-July Terry was promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteers.
Early in 1863, as a part of the VII Corps, his brigade, composed of men from New York, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, was sent to Suffolk, Virginia. There, in April and May, it was besieged by Confederates under Lieutenant General James Longstreet. Once the siege was lifted, Terry reported to Major General John A. Dix, who in late June shipped his brigade up the York and Pamunkey rivers to White House, Virginia. For the next three weeks Terry participated in an operation threatening General Robert E. Lee's communications line to Richmond during the Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania.
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