Original period manufacture. US Army official Abstract of Payments, dated October 1869 and signed by Brevet Major General Alfred H. Terry, Commanding Department of the South. Document measures 10 x 7 inches. Alfred Howe Terry 1827-1890, served as Colonel of the 21st Connecticut Infantry, saw combat with his regiment at First Bull Run, July 1861. In September 1861 he assumed command of the 7th Connecticut Infantry, served at the capture of Port Royale, Fort Pulaski, Fort Wagner and Fort Gregg. Promoted to Brigadier General of Volunteers, he was promoted to command of the 10th Corps, Army of the James. He was celebrated for the capture of Fort Fisher in January 1865, being promoted to a Brigadier General in the regular army, and a Major General of Volunteers. He remained in the army after the end of the war, serving in the South during reconstruction 1865-1866. He assumed command of the Dakota Territories 1866-1869, returning once more to the East becoming the Commander of the South. In 1876 he was in overall command of the Yellowstone Campaign, a three-pronged attack to include General George Crook from the south, General Gibbon from the north, Terry & staff accompanied the column from Ft. Abraham Lincoln, including Custer's 7th Cavalry, moving westward, . It was his column which came upon the survivors of the 7th Cavalry under the command of Major Marcus Reno and Captain Frederick Benteen.