McCulloch, Benjamin (1811-1862) (CSA General)

He is about as colorful an individual that you will meet in the Civil War. Benjamin McCulloch was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, Texas Ranger, U.S. marshal, and brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. He was born in Tennessee but in furtherance with the mystical Tennessee-Texas connection wound up in Texas. He has a neighbor to Davy Crockett and planned to meet him in Texas. He caught the measles, however, and was in bed for several weeks. He missed the Alamo, therefore, but fought at San Jacinto. (1836) He fought Indians, went into politics, fought a duel, skirmished the Mexicans in the Texan-Mexican border wars, fought in the Mexican War and when the Civil War began was eventually placed in charge of the Indian Territory and started to raise a Confederate Army of the West. He won the Battle of Wilson's Creek (1861) but lost his life at Pea Ridge (1862).