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Terry (ALFRED HOWE an American)

ALFRED HOWE, an American military officer; born in Hartford, Conn., Nov. 10, 1827; studied law at Yale College and began its practice in 1848. From 1854 to 1860 he was clerk of the Superior and Supreme Courts of Connecticut. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was colonel of a regiment of militia, which was mustered for the United States service in the first call for volunteers with Terry still at its head.

In April, 1862, he was made a Brigadier-General of volunteers, and served in the operations about Charleston, and in the siege operations at Forts Wagner TERRY and Sumter. He commanded a division in the Virginia campaign of 1864, having command of a corps from May to July.

He was in charge of the expedition which captured Fort Fisher in January, 1865, for which he was made a Major-General of volunteers, and Brigadier-General in the regular army, receiving also thanks of Congress. In March, 1865, he was placed in command of the 10th Corps, and in June, of the Department of Virginia. From 1869 to 1872 he was at the head of the Department of the South, and after 1872 had charge of various divisions and departments of the army. In March, 1886, he was promoted to the major-generalship, made vacant by the death of General Hancock, and in the following April took command of the Department of the Missouri. He retired in 1888, and and died in New Haven, Conn., Dec. 16, 1890.