Battle of Spotsylvania Court House. He was promoted first to lieutenant colonel and then after the Battle of Chancellorsville, on May 15, 1863, he was promoted to colonel of the regiment. Terrill was killed in action at the Battle of Totopotomoy Creek or Battle Bethesda Church in Hanover County, Virginia on May 30, 1864, a few days before the Battle of Cold Harbor, which took place about 3 or 4 miles to the south. Terrill was buried at Bethesda Church, near the battlefield, by Union troops. Posthumous promotion James Barbour Terrill had already been nominated to the grade of brigadier general when he was killed at the Battle of Bethesda Church. The Confederate Senate confirmed his appointment the next day, May 31, 1864, to rank from June 1, 1864. See also List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) Notes References Brown, Kent Masterson. Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. . Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . Miller, Thomas Condit and Hu Maxwell. West Virginia and Its People, Volume 3. New York, Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1913. . Retrieved May 4, 2011. Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. . Walker, Charles, D. Memorial, Virginia military institute: Biographical sketches of the Graduates and Eleves of the Virginia Military Institute Who Fell in the War Between the States. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1875. . Retrieved May 28, 2011. Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . Confederate States Army brigadier generals Virginia Military Institute alumni People of Virginia in the American Civil War Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the American Civil War 1838 births 1864 deaths People from Warm Springs, Virginia