LEADER 04103nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910777694403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-292-77904-6 010 $a0-292-79728-1 024 7 $a10.7560/702974 035 $a(CKB)1000000000454133 035 $a(OCoLC)614456752 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10192307 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000100967 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11128318 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100967 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10037231 035 $a(PQKB)10883868 035 $a(OCoLC)60746046 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19317 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443108 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10192307 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7171708 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443108 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7171708 035 $a(OCoLC)1257361321 035 $a(DE-B1597)587998 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292797284 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000454133 100 $a20040409d2004 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlexander Watkins Terrell$b[electronic resource] $eCivil War soldier, Texas lawmaker, American diplomat /$fLewis L. Gould 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 1 $aFocus on American history series 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-70297-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [201]-216) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tChapter One From Missouri to Texas -- $tChapter Two The District Judge -- $tChapter Three Civil War, Mexico, and Reconstruction -- $tChapter Four The Senator from Austin -- $tChapter Five More Laws for Texas A -- $tChapter Six The Foe of Railroads -- $tChapter Seven At the Court of the Red Sultan -- $tChapter Eight The Elder Statesman -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAlexander Terrell's career placed him at the center of some of the most pivotal events in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, ranging from the Civil War to Emperor Maximilian's reign over Mexico and an Armenian genocide under the Ottoman Empire. Alexander Watkins Terrell at last provides the first complete biographical portrait of this complex figure. Born in Virginia in 1827, Terrell moved to Texas in 1852, rising to the rank of Confederate brigadier general when the Civil War erupted. Afterwards, he briefly served in Maximilian's army before returning to Texas, where he was elected to four terms in the state Senate and three terms in the House. President Grover Cleveland appointed him minister to the Ottoman Empire, dispatching him to Turkey and the Middle East for four years while the issues surrounding the existence of Christians in a Muslim empire stoked violent confrontations there. His other accomplishments included writing legislation that created the Texas Railroad Commission and what became the Permanent University Fund (the cornerstone of the University of Texas's multibillion-dollar endowment). In this balanced exploration of Terrell's life, Gould also examines Terrell's views on race, the impact of the charges of cowardice in the Civil War that dogged him, and his spiritual searching beyond the established religions of his time. In his rich and varied life, Alexander Watkins Terrell experienced aspects of nineteenth-century Texas and American history whose effects have continued down to the present day. 410 0$aFocus on American history series. 606 $aSoldiers$zTexas$vBiography 606 $aLegislators$zTexas$vBiography 606 $aDiplomats$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aTexas$xHistory$y1846-1950 615 0$aSoldiers 615 0$aLegislators 615 0$aDiplomats 676 $a976.4/06/092 700 $aGould$b Lewis L$0541243 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777694403321 996 $aAlexander Watkins Terrell$93765408 997 $aUNINA