Rare CDV of Confederate General William R. Terry Stonewall Brigade

Rare CDV of Confederate General William R. Terry Lynchburg, VA Backmark
 
Civil War Confederate General, US Congressman. He was educated at the University of Virginia and admitted to the bar in 1851. In 1859 he went to Harper's Ferry as a Lieutenant in the Wythe Grays during the John Brown affair. In 1861, he was again at Harper's Ferry as first lieutenant of a company in the Fourth Virginia regiment, Stonewall Jackson Brigade. At the first Battle of Manassas in the spring of 1862 he was promoted to major. In the Battle of Second Manassas he was wounded and mentioned for gallantry. After Gettysburg, he was promoted to colonel and after participating in the Wilderness and Spotsylvania campaign with credit, he was promoted to brigadier –general. In 1864 he was assigned as commander of the Stonewall Brigade. At Winchester he was one of seven distinguished Confederate general to be killed or wounded. Returning to his brigade on the Petersburg line on March 25, 1865, he was wounded for the third time as he led his command against Fort Stedman. After the war, he returned to his law practice and in 1868 he was nominated to the US Congress but could not make the race because of political disabilities. Upon removal of the disabilities he was elected to the Forty-second and Forty-fourth Congresses. The Salem Times-Register reported that on Wednesday, September 5, 1888, he drowned while attempting to ford Reed Creek near his home and that his body was recovered Saturday, September 8, 1888 and the Masonic rites funeral was held Sunday, September 9, 1888.