Brig. Gen. William R. Terry (1827-1897)

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Oakwood Plantation was built here ca. 1780 for Capt. William Terry, a Revolutionary War officer. His grandson William R. Terry was born at Oakwood, graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, and became a Confederate captain in the spring of 1861. Promoted to colonel in Sept. 1861 and brigadier general in May 1864, he led his men in several major battles, including First Manassas, Second Manassas, Gettysburg, and Five Forks. He later represented Bedford County in the Senate of Virginia (1869-1877), served as superintendent of the state penitentiary, and was commandant of the Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home in Richmond. He is buried at Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery.

Department of Historic Resources, 2017

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

William R. Terry, Compiled Service Record (LVA) John H. Eicher and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), 525. Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959), 303. Virginius Cornick Hall Jr., comp., Portraits in the Collection of the Virginia Historical Society (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981), 242. Clement A. Evans, ed., Confederate Military History (Atlanta: Confederate Publishing Co., 1899), 3: 674-675. VMI Archives: http://www.vmi.edu/archives/civil-war-and-new-market/vmi-civil-war-generals/ Washington Post, 30 March 1897. Richmond Times, 10 Nov. 1892, 30 March 1897. WPA Survey, Oakwood (1938). John Goode, Recollections of a Lifetime (New York and Washington: Neale Publishing Company, 1906), 69-75.