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Show THE IIBKO) OF J'OKT FISHER. Strange coincidence that the officer under whoso direction the Sitting Hull campaign of 1870 was conducted should die almost at the SHtne time with the renowned Sioux chief, (ieneral Alfred H. Terry w as In command of the department de-partment of Dakota when Custer mado his last fatal charge, and immediately upou receiving the tidings of the massacre mas-sacre he took the field in person. He i was a tall, handsome, robust man then. A few years ago he retired from active duty on account of ill health. Urights' disease having fastened Itself upon him, and he died yesterday morning from theeirccls of it, at "the ago of M, or short one year of the time when ho would bo entilled to retire, under the operation of the law of 1KM3. With Major General Terry disappears another one of the imposing ligtires of tho civil war, mid a general w ho obtained ob-tained tho highest rank and honor in tho regular army. Horn in Connecticut in 1.'7, ho Was 'educated at Vale for the Inur eiwt fur i vi'i-k mior to the war ho was dork of the supremo court of liis native stale. luuuoiliatrly ou tho outbreak of tho rebellion ho raised a regiment at the head of which ho look part in the first hattlo of Hull Huo. In command of another Connecticut regiment regi-ment he was present at the capture of Port Hnyul. llo took command of Fort Pulaski aftor its capture; was mado brigadier general of volunteers in l(ia, participated in the operations round Charleston, and at Forts Sumter and Wagner. In 104 he led a division of the army of the James, participated in the Virgiuia campaign, and was at Bermuda Ber-muda Hundred and the siegoof Petersburg, Peters-burg, llo led a second expedition against Fort Fisher in 115 and took it by storm, tho lirst expedition tinder lien ilutler having failed. This his most conspicuous servi ce and most remarkable re-markable victory earned for him the commission of brigadier goneral in tho regular army. Ho assisted In tho capture cap-ture of Wilmington and commanded tho Tenth corps during the North Carolina, campaign, and by tho death of (ien. Hancock he was mado major general. His brilliant career ended where it began, in Connecticut, and another gallant gal-lant soldier has passed to his last muster. |