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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
The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 26 (search)
rom some of the Massachusetts regiments to join the Irish Brigade in New York city. Capt. Jonathan Richmond, Jr., of Lee county, (son of Gen. Jonathan Richmond,) died at Wytheville, on Saturday week, where he had recently gone with his company of volunteers to join Gen. Floyd's Brigade. All the sovereigns of Europe have received invitations to be present at the coming coronation of the King and Queen of Prussia. General Butler, it is said, goes back to Massachusetts, having been authorized to raise a division of 5,000 men in that State. At Boston all kinds of plain cotton cloth have advanced from one half to three-fourths of a cent a yard within a week. Lieut. E. F. Paxton, of Lexington, Va., has been promoted to the post of Aide-de-camp to Gen. Jackson. The ship Helene arrived at Baltimore on Friday, from Bremen, with 181 emigrant passengers. Dr. Wm. B. Stokes died in Baltimore on Thursday last. Bishop Jones returned from Europe in the Parris.