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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sketch of the life of Ben McCullough . (search)
Sketch of the life of Ben McCullough.
The following sketch of the life of Gen. Ben McCullough, who participated in the battle of Davis' Creek, in Missouri, will be read with interest:
Gen. McCullough was born in Rutherford county, Tenn, in 1814 His father, Alexander McCullough, was aid de-camp to Gen. Coffee, and fought under Gen. Jackson at the battles of Tallageda, Tallahassee and Horseshoe, during the Creek war. His father emigrated to Georgia while Ben was very young, and Ben was kept at school in Tennessee until he was 14 years old. After this Ben was kept hunting until he was near twenty-one.
At that time the bears were so bad in Tennessee that the settlers could not raise their hogs.
Hunting bears in the cane required much caution, and if a man's gun snapped he lost his breakfast.
Young McCullough frequently killed as many as eighty bears during a season, and never less than twenty in the course of a winter.-- This life gave him a taste for wild adventure, and whe