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(1835 - 1864)
Home State: Alabama
Branch of Service: Staff
Unit: Law's Brigade
Before Sharpsburg
He was a lawyer at Uniontown, AL before the War. He was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Company D, 4th Alabama Infantry on 2 May 1861. We was detached as acting Assistant Adjutant General to General Law by 2nd Manassas in August 1862.
On the Campaign
From General Law's Sharpsburg Report:
The members of my staff-Lieutenant Terrell, assistant adjutant-general, Captain Kirkman, Lieutenant Law, of the Citadel Academy, and Private Smith, Fourth Alabama-as usual, performed every duty bravely and efficiently.
The rest of the War
He was appointed Captain and Assistant Adjutant General 14 October 1862. He was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, 47th Alabama Infantry on 15 June 1864, and wounded in action 3 days later at Petersburg, VA. He was mortally wounded in action at the 2nd battle of Darbytown Road, near Petersburg on 13 October and died in Richmond on 22 October 1864.
References & notes
Service from Krick.1. His name also seen in records as Lee R. Terrell.
Birth
1835 in VA
Death
10/22/1864; Richmond, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA
1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, pg. 283 [AotW citation 17563]