TERRY, ALFRED HOWE. 



general Jan. 15, 1865 ; was promoted major-gen- 

 eral March 3. 1886 ; and was retired for disability 

 incurred in the line of duty April 5, 1888. He 

 was brevetted major-general of volunteers Aug. 

 26, 1864, for meritorious and distinguished serv- 

 ices during the war, and major-general in the 

 regular army March 13, 1865, for the capture of 

 Wilmington, N. C. 



After taking the field the second time, he 

 commanded his regiment at the capture of Port 

 Royal, S. C., taking possession of Fort Walker ; 

 and in the siege of Fort Pulaski his regiment 

 operated five mortar batteries, and after the sur- 

 render occupied the works. On May 23, 1862, 

 he was assigned to the command of the First 

 Brigade, Benham's division, Army of the South. 

 He took part in the action at Pocotaligo and the 

 early operations against Charleston, commanded 

 the forces on Morris Island during the siege of 

 Forts Sumter and Wagner, and afterward was 

 appointed commander of the northern district 

 of the Department of the South, including the 

 islands in Charleston harbor. Early in 1864 he 

 was transferred to Virginia and assigned to the 

 command of the First Division of the Tenth 

 Army Corps, under Gen. Quincy A. Gillmore, 

 with whom he had served in South Carolina. 

 In this campaign he participated in the actions 

 at Chester Station, Drury's Bluff, Bermuda 

 Hundred, Fussell's Mills, Deep Bottom, those on 

 the Newmarket, Darbytown, and Williamsburg 

 roads ; and in the siege of Petersburg. In De- 

 cember, 1864, his corps was merged into the 

 Twenty-fourth Army Corps, and he was placed 

 in command of its First Division. In the same 

 month an attempt to capture Fort Fisher, which 

 commanded the sea approaches to Wilmington, 

 N. C., by an expedition under Gen Benjamin F. 

 Butler, resulted in failure. Gen. Grant was de- 

 termined to secure the works, and ordered Gen. 

 Terry to prepare a second expedition in co-oper- 

 ation with Admiral Porter, and renew the at- 

 tempt. Gen. Terry received his orders on Jan. 

 2, 1865, and on the 12th was at the point of 

 rendezvous agreed upon with Admiral Porter. 

 The naval commander gathered a fleet of 44 

 vessels, mounting more than 500 guns, and ap- 

 proached the works. At the appointed time 

 Gen. Terry landed his troops 5 miles above the 

 fort, and, unknowingly, directly in front of a 

 division of Confederates under Gen. Robert F. 

 Hoke. In preparation for a siege he began 

 constructing intrenchments, but a reconnais- 

 sance convinced him of the impracticability of a 

 siege in midwinter, and he determined to at- 

 tempt the capture of the works by a sudden as- 

 sault under fire of the fleet. At eleven o'clock 

 on the morning of the 15th, Admiral Porter 

 opened fire on the fort, and within an hour and 

 a half threw more than 20,000 shots against it. 

 Gen. Terry sent a brigade under Gen. Newton 

 M. Curtis to a point 200 yards from the western 

 side of the northern face of the fort, and pushed 

 forward to a supporting distance the remainder 

 of Gen. Ames's division. At 3.30 P.M. Gen. 

 Terry signaled Admiral Porter that he was 

 ready for the assault. The fleet reopened fire to 

 divert attention from the point of land attack, 

 and the army advanced, while a force of 2,000 

 sailors and marines from the fleet rushed toward 

 the eastern side of the face of the fort, Hand-to- 



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hand fighting of the most dc>sj>erate ,}.. 

 ensued, the Confederates retreating s|,,\vlv from 

 one traverse to another. By fivu o'clock ! <,f 

 the traverses of the fort wen- captured : |, v nine 

 o clock 2 more were carried ; and at ten oVlock 

 Gen. Terry received the surrender ,,f n 

 with 1,971 men and 112 officers, besides an im- 

 mense amount of artillery, small arms, and ammu- 

 nition. His loss was 88 killed and /in:; \\ounded. 

 For this great victory Gen. Terry n-c, i\,-d pro- 

 motion, the personal congratulations . 

 Grant, and the thanks of both Houses of Con- 

 gress. The occupation of Wilmington and all 

 the other works defending it soon foilov, 

 April, 1865, Gen. Terry co-operated with (Jen. 

 Sherman in North Carolina, and after th 

 pation of Richmond he was placed in command 

 of the Department of Virginia. After the war 

 he commanded the Departments of Dakota and 

 the South, and the Military Division of the Mis- 

 souri, with headquarters in Chicago. NVhile 

 commanding the Department of Dakota he led 

 the expedition, in 1876, against the Sioux Imli. 

 ans under Sitting Bull (q. v. in this volume), and 

 drove the hostiles to seek refuge in Canada. 



TEXAS, a Southern State, admitted to t he- 

 Union. Dec. 29, 1845 ; area, 265,780 square miles. 

 The population, according to each decennial 

 census since admission, was: 212.592 in 1850; 

 604,215 in 1860; 818,759 in 1870: 1,591,749 in 

 1880 ; and 2,235,523 in 1890. Capital, Austin. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers during the year : Governor, Lawrence S. 

 Ross, Democrat; Lieutenant -Governor, T. B. 

 Wheeler; Secretary of State, J. M. Moore; 

 Treasurer, Frank R. Lubbock; Comptroller. 

 John D. McCall; Attorney-General, James S. 

 Hogg; Superintendent of Public Instruction. 

 Oscar H. Cooper, who resigned in August and 

 was succeeded by H. Carr Pritchett: Commis- 

 sioner of the General Land Office, R. M. Hall: 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, John W. 

 Staytori; Associate Justices, Reuben R. (Jaines 

 and John L. Henry; Commission of Appeals. 

 Presiding Judge, Walter Acker, Judges, W. K. 

 Collard and Edwin M. Hobby; Court of Ap- 

 peals, Presiding Judge, John P. White, Judges, 

 James M. Hurt and Samuel A. Willson. 



Finances. The receipts of the State treasury 

 for the year ending Aug. 31, 1890 (including Un- 

 balance from the preceding year), were $2,685,- 

 171.61, and the disbursements $l,90K7'J7.-i:5. 

 leaving a cash balance of $618.622.66 at the ] 

 of the year. The Comptroller estimates the re- 

 ceipts for the next two years at $4,926,622.66, 

 and disbursements for all purposes $4,206.698.02. 

 leaving a balance on hand Aug. 31, 1892, of 

 $721,039.04. 



Nearly all of the State revenue is derived from 

 the ad valorem tax on property. For 1H!K) tit- 

 rate was 20 cents on each $100, and the as 

 valuation of all taxable property was $782,121,- 

 883. There has been no change during the year 

 in the State debt, which remains at $4,4! 

 Of this sum $3,017,100 is held by the State in 

 various permanent funds, and $1.220,630 is held 

 by individuals. 



County Debts. The total debt of Texas 

 counties 'in 1890 was $6,678,563, an increase of 

 $4,179,276 in ten years. Of this total, $6.166,072 

 is a bonded debt and $512,491 a floating debt. 



