Alexander Watkins Terrell: Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat

Notes

Notes Chapter One 1. Christopher Johnson Terrell to “Dear Captain,” January 7, 1832, James McCartney Family Papers, Houston, Texas, courtesy of James McCartney, hereinafter cited as MFP; History of Howard and Cooper Counties, Missouri (St. Louis: National Historical Company, 1883), pp. 655–659. 2. Charles E. Rosenberg, The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), pp. 2–3. 3. Alexander Watkins Terrell, “Reminiscences,” p. 3, Box 2H17, Alexander Watkins Terrell Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, hereinafter Terrell Papers. Terrell’s memoir will be cited as “Reminiscences .” 4. Terrell, “Reminiscences,” p. 2. Terrell’s memoirs reflect that he was writing many years after the events described; “Address of Judge A. W. Terrell, in the House of Representatives, during Special Session, in Memory of Governor [James S.] Hogg,” Alexander Watkins Terrell Biographical File, Center for American History, for the reference to widows. 5. For Walter Terrell see Frank Barlow, William Rufus (London: Methuen, 1983), p. 423; the reference to King Edward is in some genealogical documents in the Alexander W. Terrell Family Papers, Texas State Library, hereinafter Terrell Family Papers (TSL), Box 1991/152-1. Additional information about the family in England can be found in Edwin H. Terrell, Further Genealogical Notes on the Tyrell-Terrell Family of Virginia and Its English and Norman-French Progenitors, Second Edition with Addenda and Corrigenda (San Antonio: n.p., 1909). 6. Robert C. Glass and Carter Glass Jr., Virginia Democracy (New York: Democratic Historical Association, 1937), vol. 2, pp. 25–26. 7. Glass and Glass, Virginia Democracy, vol. 2, p. 26; Emma Dicken, Terrell Genealogy (San Antonio: Naylor, n.d.), p. 172. Dr. Terrell is not listed in The Catalogue of the Alumni of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, gould final 7/18/04 11:14 AM Page 169 1865–1877 (Philadelphia: Society of the Alumni of the Medical Department, n.d.), p. 179, where other graduates named Terrell or Terrill are listed. Mark Frazier Lloyd to Lewis L. Gould, September 3, 1999. For the apprenticeship path to medical training see Martin Kaufman, American Medical Education: The Formative Years, 1765–1910 (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1976), pp. 45–46. Dr. Terrell’s qualities are described in his obituary in MFP. 8. Glass and Glass, Virginia Democracy, vol. 2, p. 26. Charles K. Chamberlain, “Alexander Watkins Terrell, Citizen, Statesman,” (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1956), p. 4. 9. There is some disagreement about the date of Terrell’s birth, which is discussed in Chamberlain, “Alexander Watkins Terrell,” p. 3, n. 4. Terrell’s own memoirs give the date as November 3, 1827. Jane Terrell is mentioned in Dicken, Terrell Genealogy, p. 172. 10. Dicken, Terrell Genealogy, p. 172, for the birth dates of Terrell’s brothers. For the tendency of some young Virginia men to move west in this period see Joan E. Cashin, A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 33–39. Dr. Terrell’s father died in 1820, which meant that his son had fewer ties to Virginia anyway. 11. R. Douglas Hurt, Agriculture and Slavery in Missouri’s Little Dixie (Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 1992), pp. 5, 51. 12. For the westward journey see Dr. J. Terrell Scott to “Merle,” December 1 and 14, 1971, George C. Morris Family Papers, Houston, Texas, courtesy of George C. Morris, hereinafter cited as Morris Family Papers. 13. William Clark Kennerly, Persimmon Hill: A Narrative of Old St. Louis and the Far West (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1949); Jerome O. Steffen, William Clark: Jeffersonian Man on the Frontier (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977), p. 151; Christopher Terrell to “Dear Captain,” January 7, 1832, MFP. 14. Hurt, Agriculture and Slavery, pp. 219, 221, 224. 15. Terrell, “Reminiscences,” p. 2. 16. Chamberlain, “Alexander Watkins Terrell,” pp. 5–6; an obituary of Susan Kennerly Terrell Clark Penn appeared in the Lynchburg [Virginia] News, January 30, 1901, McCartney Scrapbook, MFP. 17. Terrell, “Reminiscences,” p. 3 (both quotations). 18. Chamberlain, “Alexander Watkins Terrell,” p. 6, briefly discusses Susan Clark’s second marriage. For information on Robert Patterson Clark see History of Howard and Cooper Counties, Missouri, pp. 739, 830, 866–867. The cryptic reference to Clark’s second marriage on p. 867 suggests that the surviving Clark family members were not close to Susan Terrell Clark. 19. Terrell, “Reminiscences,” pp. 6–7. 20. Ibid., p. 4. 21...