A Guide to the Ben and Henry Eustace McCulloch Family Papers, 1798-1961


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	McCulloch Family
	Title	McCulloch (Ben and Henry Eustace) Family Papers,
	Dates:	1798-1961.
	Abstract	Papers of Ben McCulloch (1811-1862) and his brother, Henry Eustace McCulloch (1816-1895) include materials relating to their parents, Alexander McCulloch (1777-1846) and Francis F. (Lenoir) McCulloch (1780-1866) of Dyersburg, Tennessee, siblings and descendants.
	OCLC Number	39540808
	Extent	1 ft., 6 in.
	Language	English.
	Repository	Center for American History ,The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Note

Ben and Henry Eustace McCulloch both served as Texas Rangers, Texas legislators, United States marshals, and as brigadier generals in the Confederate Army.

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Papers of Ben McCulloch (1811-1862) and his brother, Henry Eustace McCulloch (1816-1895) include materials relating to their parents, Alexander McCulloch (1777-1846) and Francis F. (Lenoir) McCulloch (1780-1866) of Dyersburg, Tennessee, siblings and descendants. The McCulloch family series includes correspondence concerning family matters and reflects farm life and military, social and political events; genealogies of the McCulloch and Van Lear families; a family scrapbook; and materials concerning Henry's son, Captain Ben E. McCulloch. Ben McCulloch's papers consist of letters reflecting his activities as surveyor in Gonzales County (1837), state legislator (1846), Texas Ranger (1846-1848), gold miner and sheriff in Sacramento, California (1853-1856), peace commissioner to the Utah Territory (1858), brigadier general in the Confederate Army and commander at the Battle of Elkhorn where he died in 1862. Henry Eustace McCulloch's papers include letters, journals and military communications documenting his activities as sheriff of Gonzales County; surveyor and merchandiser in Gonzales and Seguin; tavern keeper in Austin (1859-1860); and officer in the Confederate Army (1861-1865). Included are rosters and accounts of McCulloch's volunteer companies (1846-1851) and documents of Henry's activities as superintendent of the Texas Institution for the Deaf and Dumb (1877-1879).

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Index Terms

	Subjects (Persons)
		Baylor, George Wythe, 1832-1916.
		Boone family--Pictorial works.
		McCulloch, Alexander.
		McCulloch, Ben, 1811-1862--Archives.
		McCulloch, Ben E.
		McCulloch family--Archives.
		McCulloch, Francis F.
		McCulloch, Henry Eustace--Archives.
		Slaughter family.
		Van Lear family.
	Subjects (Organizations)
		Pan-American Railway.
		Texas Rangers.
		Texas School for the Deaf.
	Subjects
		Farm life--Tennessee--History--Sources.
		Farm life--Texas--History--Sources.
		Gold miners--California--Correspondence.
		Mexican War--1846-1848--Sources.
		Pea Ridge, Battle of, 1862.
		Utah Expedition, 1857-1858.
	Places
		Dyersburg (Tenn.)--History--Sources.
		Hermitage (Tenn.)--Pictorial works.
		Sacramento (Calif.)--History--Sources.
		Tennessee--Social life and customs.
		Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.
		Texas--History--Republic, 1836-1846--Sources.
		Texas--History--1846-1950--Sources.
		Texas--Politics and government--1846-1865.
		Texas--Social life and customs.
		United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
		United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.

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Separated Material

General Order, Fort Smith, Ark., March 9th, 1862 (Funeral Broadside) DB 1862

Order of Proceedings, Brig. Gen Ben McCulloch (Funeral Broadside) DB 1862

Texas Weeps for McCulloch, The Defender of Our Liberties OB 1862

Photocopies of Broadside were placed in collection.

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McCulloch family papers:

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3G36

Bound volumes, 1813-1912;

Correspondence, 1801-1876.

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3G37

Genealogy 1899, 1798-1935

Ben E. McCulloch papers 1901-1916 and undated;

Photocopies of scrapbook 1862-1895 and undated;

Memorabilia and newspaper clippings 1851-1894 and undated.

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Benjamin McCulloch papers:

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Letters to family 1846-1861

Materials related to Mexican War, Utah Expedition, and the Civil War 1846-1862

Broadsides 1862

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Henry Eustace McCulloch papers:

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3G37

Letters to family 1844-1872

Military correspondence 1852-1889

Records of McCulloch's Company, Texas Mounted Volunteers 1851, 1854

Journals 1848-1857

Photocopies of journals 1848 1857

Land survey, list of Mier men, memorial, newspaper clippings 1847-1895

Texas Institution for the Deaf and Dumb 1877-1879

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3E246

Autobiography of Henry Eustace McCulloch (copy)

Transcript of Autobiography of Henry Eustace McCulloch

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Miscellany:

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3G37

W. M. Hardy, Slaughter family, Pan American Railway 1863-1920 and undated

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3Y82

Photographs

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3Y4b

Cased photographs: ambrotypes of Francis F. McCulloch and _____ Boone.

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Oversize materials:

McCulloch family papers:

Family correspondence 1817-1867

Certificates 1887, 1906, 1907

Life of Walter McCulloch 1892

Benjamin McCulloch papers:

Letters to family 1846-1860

Correspondence 1858

Resolution 1862

Broadside 1862

Henry McCulloch papers:

Letters to family 1840-1868

General correspondence 1863

Miscellany:

W. M. Hardy 1863

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