Don Carlos Barrett
Brazoria, Brazoria County, Texas
Marker Inscription
A member of the General Council of the Provisional Government of Texas and by that body elected judge advocate general of the army with the rank of colonel, 1835. Born in Vermont June 22, 1788; died in Texas May 19, 1838.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
A Vermont-born newcomer to Texas, Don Carlos Barrett sat on the General Council of the 1835 Provisional Government during the opening months of the Texas Revolution. That body named him judge advocate general of the army with the rank of colonel, placing him at the legal heart of the fledgling war effort. He died in Texas in 1838, having helped shape the institutions of the emerging Republic.
Why it matters
Barrett represents the Northern-born idealists who threw in with the Texas cause, lending legal and governmental structure to a revolution still finding its footing.
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