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Taylor after the battle of Resaca de la Palma, May 9, 1846. He was i)romoted quartermaster with the rank of major, July 16, 1846 ; participated in the battle of Monteray, Sept. 20-25, 1846, and with his scouts was sent forward one hundred miles into the enemy's country, and discovered the exact strength of Santa Anna's forces. At Buena Vista, Sept. 22-24, 1847, by his great bra- very lie won the recognition of the command- ing general and was placed on duty at Scott's headquarters. After resigning his staff posi- tion he organized a company of spies and per- formed valuable services at the taking of the •city of Mexico. He returned to Texas after the close of the war and resumed his business of surveying. In 1849, upon the discovery of gold m California, he removed to Sacramento, and was elected sheriff of Sacramento county. He returned to Texas in 1852 ; was appointed U.S. marshal for the eastern district by President Pierce, and was retained by President Buchan- missioners to adjust tlie Mormon troubles in Utah, and to report on the condition of Arizona. He refused the nomination of U.S. senator in 1855, and at the outbreak of the civil war he was •engaged on official duty at Washington. After the conclusion of his final reports he returned to Texas and offered his services to the Confederate ■cause, and he was commissioned brigadier-gen- ■eral, May 14, 1861, and ordered to Fort Smith, Ark. He hastily organized an army and marched to the relief of Governor C. J. Jackson, and after forming a junction with Generals Sterling Price and N. B. Pearce, he assumed command of the combined forces and met and defeated the Fed- eral army under Gen. Nathaniel Lyon, at Wilson's Creek, Aug. 10, 1861. Having no orders to make Missouri a fighting ground, he refused to pursue and gave up the command to General Price. He participated in the attempt made by General Van Dorn to surround the Federal army at Benton - ville, Ark., and succeeded in driving General <Sigel from the town. McCulloch commanded a division composed of an infantry and cavalry brigade at the battle of Pea Ridge, March 7, 1862, and while leading his troops in a furious at- tack against the division of Gen. P. J. Osterhaus, he was mortally wounded and his command, de- prived of its commander, was beaten back. He •died near Elkhorn Tavern, Ark., March 7, 1862.
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Mcculloch, Henry Eustace, soldier, was born in Rutherford county, Tenn., Dec. 6, 1816; «on of Lieut. Alexander McCulloch. He engaged in rafting on the Mississippi, and at the out- break of the Florida war of 1836 he served as a volunteer. He removed to Texas in 1837 and •engaged in land surveying. He was married, in 1840, to Jane Isabella Ashby. He was appointed

tax-collector for Gonzales county in 1840. H>t was elected captain of four different volunteer companies during the war with Mexico ; raised a company of rangers in 1850, of which he was elected captain, and engaged in several skirmishes with hostile Indians. He was mustered out of service, Nov. 4, 1851, and returned to Texas, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising. He was a representative in the state legislature, 1853-55 ; state senator, 1855-59 : and U.S. mar- shal for the eastern district of Texas, 1859-61. He was appointed by the secession convention a colonel with authority to recruit a regiment of volunteers, with which he captured U.S. stores at Camp Colorado and at Fort Cliadburn. He was commissioned colonel by President Davis, and raised a regiment of mounted men for the Con- federate army. He assumed command of the de- partment of Texas ; was elected colonel of the regiment he had raised and was subsequently appointed brigadier-general. After the war he returned to Texas. He was superintendent of the state deaf and dumb asylum, 1876-79, and agent of the state land board, 1885-87.

McCULLOCH, Hugh, cabinet officer, was born in Kennebunk, Maine, Dec. 7, 1808 ; son of Hugh and Abial (Perkins) McCulloch ; grandson of Adam and Louisa (Brown) McCulloc^h, and a de- scendant of Hugh McCulloch, baillie of Dornoch, Sutherlandshire, Scotland. His father was one of the largest ship- owners of New Eng- land, but sustained severe losses during the war of 1812-15. Adam McCulloch, his grandfather, emi- grated from Scotland about 1766 and settled in Arundel, now Ken- nebunkport, Maine. HughattendedThorn- ton academy, Saco, Maine, and ma- triculated at Bow- doin college, class of 1829, but was

obliged to leave on account of illness. He was a teacher, 1826-29 ; studied law in Kennebunk and Boston, and in 1833 removed to Fort Wayne, Ind., where he practised law. He was cashier of the Fort Wayne branch of the State Bank of Indiana, 1835-56. Wlien the institution was re- organized as the Bank of the State of Indiana in 1856 he was elected president, serving till 1863. when Secretary Salmon P. Chase made him comptroller of the U.S. treasury. McCulloch stipulated in his acceptance that as soon as he had given the newly-enacted national bank law

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