Edwin Terrell

Birth Date

c1845

Death Date

c1868

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Shelby County, Kentucky, soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Robert and Martha Terrell. Resident of Shelby County in 1850. Served in the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as private from 1861 to 1863. Served in the 37th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as private from 1863 to 1864. Captain of a counter-guerrilla unit (U.S.A.) in Shelby County and Spencer County in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby County, District 2, p. 348.
Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0079.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 420.
Matthew Christopher Hulbert, "The Rise and Fall of Edwin Terrell, Guerrilla Hunter, U.S.A.," Ohio Valley History vol. 18, no. 3 (Fall 2018), 42-61.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1867), 374.
“Terrell: Death of a Notorious Kentucky Guerilla,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.),December 14, 1868, p. 4.

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