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Father: William ARMISTEAD I Mother: Hannah HINES |
_William ARMISTEAD "the Immigrant"_+
| (1610 - 1671) m 1632
_Anthony ARMISTEAD __|
| (1645 - 1726) |
| |_Anne E. ELLIS ____________________
| (1616 - 1650) m 1632
_William ARMISTEAD I_|
| (1670 - 1715) m 1696|
| | _Robert ELLYSON ___________________
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| |_Hannah ELLYSON _____|
| (1645 - 1727) |
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|--Hannah ARMISTEAD
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| _Thomas HINES _______|
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|_Hannah HINES _______|
(1673 - ....) m 1696|
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|_Hannah______________|
(1650 - ....) |
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Father: DUNCAN de FIFE 9th Earl of Fife Mother: JOHANNA de CLARE |
_MALCOLM MACDUFF 7th Earl of Fife_+
| (1237 - 1266) m 1269
_COLBAN de FIFE 8th Earl of Fife_|
| (1244 - 1270) |
| |_HELEN (Elen) of North Wales______+
| (1226 - 1291) m 1269
_DUNCAN de FIFE 9th Earl of Fife_|
| (1262 - 1288) |
| | _ALAN LUNDIN Lundin and Durward___
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| |_ANNE LUNDIN ____________________|
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|--DUNCAN de FIFE 10th Earl of Fife
| (1285 - 1353)
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Mother: Frances Fisher LENOIR |
First National Flag
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Report of Col. Julius White, 37th Illinois Volunteers: "The
force we encountered consisted of the Third Louisiana, Col.
Hebert, a regiment formerly commanded by General McIntosh,
Colonel Mitchell's and Colonel McRaie's two regiments of
Arkansans, and a large body of Indians, under command of Col.
Albert Pike, with a reserve of several other regiments, all
being under the chief command of General Benjamin McCulloch.
....Their triumph was short-lived, however, for the
Thirty-seventh Illinois immediately fired upon them and charged,
routing their right wing at the same time that the First
Brigade, under Colonel Pattison, came into action on our right,
driving the left wing of the enemy in confusion from the field
and retaking our guns. "(O.R., Series I, Vol. 8, P. 253) The
Confederate forces involved in the Battle were the 3rd Louisiana
Volunteers, the 2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifles, the 4th Arkansas
Volunteers, 21st Arkansas Volunteers and the 14th Arkansas
Volunteers. It is not known which Confederate Regiment carried
this flag.
http://www.civil-war.com/searchpages/confresult.asp?ft=national
MCCULLOCH, BENJAMIN (1811-1862). Ben McCulloch, Indian fighter,
Texas Ranger, United States marshal, and brigadier general in
the Army of the Confederate States of America, was born in
Rutherford County, Tennessee, on November 11, 1811, the fourth
son of Alexander and Frances F. (LeNoir) McCulloch. His mother
was the daughter of a prominent Virginia planter, and his
father, a graduate of Yale College, was a major on Brig. Gen.
John Coffee's staff during Andrew Jackson's campaign against the
Creeks in Alabama.
Ben was also the elder brother of Henry Eustace McCulloch.qv The
McCullochs had been a prosperous and influential colonial North
Carolina family but had lost much of their wealth as a result of
the Revolutionary War and the improvidence of Alexander
McCulloch, who so wasted his inheritance that he was unable to
educate his younger sons. Two of Ben's older brothers briefly
attended school taught by a close neighbor and family friend in
Tennessee, Sam Houston.qv Like many families on the western
frontier, the McCullochs moved often-from North Carolina to
eastern Tennessee to Alabama and back to western Tennessee
between 1812 and 1830. They settled at last near Dyersburg,
Tennessee, where David Crockett qv was among their closest
neighbors and most influential friends. After five years of
farming, hunting, and rafting, but virtually no formal
schooling, Ben agreed to follow Crockett to Texas, planning to
meet him in Nacogdoches on Christmas Day, 1835. Ben and Henry
arrived too late, however, and Ben followed Crockett alone
toward San Antonio. When sickness from measles prevented him
from reaching the Alamo qv before its fall, McCulloch joined
Houston's army on its retreat into East Texas. At the battle of
San Jacinto qv he commanded one of the famed Twin Sisters qv and
won from Houston a battlefield commission as first lieutenant.
He soon left the army, however, to earn his living as a surveyor
in the Texas frontier communities of Gonzales and Seguin. He
then joined the Texas Rangers qv and, as first lieutenant under
John Coffee Hays,qv won a considerable reputation as an Indian
fighter. In 1839 McCulloch was elected to the House of
Representatives of the Republic of Texas qv in a campaign marred
by a rifle duel with Reuben Ross.qv In the affray McCulloch
received a wound that partially crippled his right arm for the
rest of his life. On Christmas Day of that year Henry McCulloch
killed Ross in a pistol duel in Gonzales.
Ben chose not to stand for reelection in 1842 but returned to
surveying and the pursuit of a quasimilitary career. At the
battle of Plum Creek qv on August 12, 1840, he distinguished
himself as a scout and as commander of the right wing of the
Texas army. In February 1842, when the Mexican government
launched a raid against Texas that seized the strategic town of
San Antonio, McCulloch rendered invaluable service by scouting
enemy positions and taking a prominent role in the fighting that
harried Rafael Vásquez'sqv raiders back below the Rio Grande. On
September 11, 1842, a second Mexican expedition captured San
Antonio. McCulloch again did valuable scouting service and
joined in the pursuit of Adrián Woll's qv invading troops to the
Hondo River, where Hays's rangers engaged them on September 21.
After the repulse of the second Mexican invasion, McCulloch
remained with the ranger company that formed the nucleus of an
army with which the Texans planned to invade Mexico. The
so-called Somervell expedition qv was poorly managed, however,
and Ben and Henry left it on the Rio Grande only hours before
the remainder of the Texans were captured at Mier, Tamaulipas,
on December 25, 1842. McCulloch was elected to the First
Legislature after the annexation qv of Texas.
At the outbreak of the Mexican War qv he raised a command of
Texas Rangers that became Company A of Col. Jack Hays's First
Regiment, Texas Mounted Volunteers. He was ordered to report to
the United States Army on the Rio Grande and was soon named
Zachary Taylor's qv chief of scouts. As such he won his
commander's praise and the admiration of the nation with his
exciting reconnaissance expeditions into northern Mexico. The
presence in his company of George Wilkins Kendall,qv editor of
the New Orleans Picayune, and Samuel Reid, who later wrote a
popular history of the campaign, The Scouting Expeditions of
McCulloch's Texas Rangers, propelled McCulloch's name into
national prominence. Leading his company as mounted infantry at
the battle of Monterrey, McCulloch further distinguished
himself, and before the battle of Buena Vista his astute and
daring reconnaissance work saved Taylor's army from disaster and
won him a promotion to the rank of major of United States
volunteers.
McCulloch returned to Texas at the end of the war, served for a
time as a scout under Bvt. Maj. Gen. David E. Twiggs,qv and
traveled to Tennessee on family business before setting out from
Austin on September 9, 1849, for the gold fields of California.
Although he failed to strike it rich, he was elected sheriff of
Sacramento. His friends in the Senate, Sam Houston and Thomas
Jefferson Rusk,qv mounted a campaign to put him in command of a
regiment of United States cavalry for duty on the Texas
frontier, but largely due to McCulloch's lack of formal
education the attempt was frustrated. In 1852 President Franklin
Pierce promised him the command of the elite Second United
States Cavalry,qv but Secretary of War Jefferson Davis qv
bestowed the command instead on his personal favorite, Albert
Sidney Johnston.qv McCulloch was, however, appointed United
States marshal for the Eastern District of Texas and served
under Judge John Charles Watrous qv during the administrations
of Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan. In 1858 he was appointed
one of two peace commissioners to treat with Brigham Young and
the elders of the Mormon Church; he is credited with helping to
prevent armed hostilities between the United States government
and the Latter-Day Saints in Utah.
When secessionqv came to Texas, McCulloch was commissioned a
colonel and authorized to demand the surrender of all federal
posts in the Military District of Texas. After a bloodless
confrontation at the Alamo on February 16, 1861, General Twiggs
turned over to McCulloch the federal arsenal and all other
United States property in San Antonio. On May 11, 1861,
Jefferson Davis appointed McCulloch a brigadier general, the
second-ranking brigadier general in the Confederate Army and the
first general-grade officer to be commissioned from the civilian
community. McCulloch was assigned to the command of Indian
Territory and established his headquarters at Little Rock,
Arkansas, where he began to build the Army of the West with
regiments from Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Although hampered
by logistical nightmares and a total disagreement over strategic
objectives with Missouri general Sterling Price, with whom he
had been ordered to cooperate, McCulloch, with the assistance of
Albert Pike,qv established vital alliances with the Cherokees,
Choctaws, Creeks, and other inhabitants of what is now eastern
Oklahoma. On August 10, 1861, he won an impressive victory over
the army of Brig. Gen. Nathaniel Lyon at Wilson's Creek, or Oak
Hills, in southwest Missouri. McCulloch's continuing inability
to come to personal or strategic accord with Price, however,
caused President Davis, on January 10, 1862, to appoint Maj.
Gen. Earl Van Dorn qv to the command of both McCulloch's and
Price's armies. Van Dorn launched the Army of the West on an
expedition to capture St. Louis, a plan that McCulloch bitterly
resisted. The Confederates encountered the army of Union major
general Samuel R. Curtis on the Little Sugar Creek in northwest
Arkansas. Due largely to McCulloch's remarkable knowledge of the
terrain, Van Dorn's army was able to flank the enemy out of a
strong position and cut his line of communication to the north.
McCulloch, commanding the Confederate right wing in the ensuing
battle of Pea Ridge, or Elkhorn Tavern, on March 7, 1862,
overran a battery of artillery and drove the enemy from his
original position. As federal resistance stiffened around 10:30
A.M., however, McCulloch rode forward through the thick
underbrush to determine the location of the enemy line, was shot
from his horse, and died instantly. His command devolved upon
Brig. Gen. James M. McIntosh, who was killed but a few minutes
later while leading a charge to recover McCulloch's body. Col.
Louis Hébert, the division's senior regimental commander, was
captured in the same charge, and soon McCulloch's division,
without leadership, began to fall apart and drift toward the
rear. Most participants and later historians attribute to
McCulloch's untimely death the disaster at Pea Ridge and the
subsequent loss of Arkansas to the Union forces.
McCulloch was first buried on the field, but his body was
removed to the cemetery at Little Rock and thence to the State
Cemetery qv in Austin. McCulloch never married. His papers are
located in the Barker Texas History Centerqv at the University
of Texas at Austin.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Thomas W. Cutrer, Ben McCulloch and the Frontier
Military Tradition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina
Press, 1993). Jack W. Gunn, "Ben McCulloch: A Big Captain,"
Southwestern Historical Quarterly 58 (July 1954). Samuel C.
Reid, Jr., The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers
(Philadelphia: Zieber, 1847; rpt., Freeport, New York: Books for
Libraries Press, 1970). Victor Marion Rose, The Life and
Services of Gen. Ben McCulloch (Philadelphia, 1888; rpt.,
Austin: Steck, 1958). Thomas W. Cutrer
Benjamin McCulloch commanded the Confederate forces at Wilson's
Creek. Though possessing no formal military training, he was a
veteran Indian fighter, participated in the Texas War of
Independence, and commanded a company of Texas Rangers in the
Mexican War. After serving as sheriff of Sacramento during the
California gold rush, he was appointed U. S. marshal for the
eastern district of Texas. McCulloch rose from a colonel of
state troops in February 1861 to a brigadier general in the
Confederate States Army in May that same year. Seven months
after the Confederate victory at Wilson's Creek, he died while
leading a division of troops at the Battle of Pea Ridge,
Arkansas, March 7, 1862.
Security of Gonzales Area
Battle of San Jacinto 1836
Peach Creek ca. 1838
Comanche Raid on Linnville 1840
The Battle of Plum Creek 1840
Raid on Gonzales 1841
Battle of Salado 1842
The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable
Americans: Volume VII
page 119
McCULLOCH, Benjamin, soldier, was born in Rutherford county,
Tenn., Nov. 11, 1811; son of Lieut. Alexander McCulloch, an
aide-de-camp to Gen. James Coffee. He worked on his father's
farm, was a raftsman on the river, and became an expert hunter
and trapper. In 1835 he removed to Texas to aid that colony in
its struggle for in dependence. He arrived at Nacogdoches too
late to join General Houston's army, and started alone for the
Brazos river. After the fall of the Alamo he joined General
Houston's army and was in charge of one of the "twin sisters"
guns at the battle of San Jacinto which he used with such effect
that he was promoted on the field, and his heroism formed the
subject for a poem, "Ben McCulloch at San Jacinto." He was
engaged in recruiting a company in Tennessee until the close of
the war, when he settled in Gonzales, engaged in exploration and
surveying, and defended the frontier against Indian raids,
taking part in the engagement at Plum Creek. He was a
representative in the Texas congress in 1839; and while in
congress he had a duel with Col. Reuben Davis, in which he
received a severe wound in the shoulder. In 1840 he rendered
notable service during the Indian raid as a scout and as
commander of a company. He declined the nomination for
representative in the Texas congress in 1842, and upon the
annexation of Texas to the United States in 1845 he was a
representative in the first state legislature and was appointed
major-general of state militia for the western district. At the
outbreak of the war with Mexico, in April, 1846, he organized a
company of picked scouts, and joined General [p.119] Taylor
after the battle of Resaca de la Palma, May 9, 1846. He was
promoted quartermaster with the rank of major, July 16, 1846;
participated in the battle of Monterey, 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
bravery he won the recognition of the commanding general and was
placed on duty at Scott's headquarters. After resigning his
staff position he organized a company of spies and performed
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 in
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 Buchanan. In 1857 he was appointed one
of the commissioners to adjust the 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-general, 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 Federal 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
Bentonville, 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 attack against the
division of Gen. P. J. Osterhaus, he was mortally wounded and
his command, deprived of its commander, was beaten back. He died
near Elkhorn Tavern, Ark., March 7, 1862.
In the 1830s Ben and Henry McCullochs carried on several
economic enterprises. They traveled the Mississippi River on log
rafts to various markets, and by the end of the decade they had
moved to Gonzales to survey and locate lands.
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|--Benjamin MCCULLOCH C.S.A.
| (1811 - 1862)
| _Robert Crawley LENOIR _+
| | (1733 - 1793) m 1759
| _Fisher LENOIR _________________________|
| | (1760 - ....) |
| | |_Winifred FISHER _______
| | (1737 - 1792) m 1759
|_Frances Fisher LENOIR _|
(1780 - 1866) m 1799 |
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Mother: BEATRIX de SAVOIE of Savoie |
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abt 1217?Aix-en-Provence, France
_ALFONSO II "The Chaste" PROVENCE of Aragon_
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_ALFONSO II (Alfonsez) "el Casto" PROVENCE of Aragon_|
| (1174 - 1209) m 1193 |
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_RAYMOND IV BERENGAR de Provence_|
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| |_GERSINDE II de SABRAN Countess of Forcalquier_______|
| (1181 - 1209) m 1193 |
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|--ELEANOR de PROVENCE of England
| (1223 - 1291)
| _St. HUMBERT III de SAVOIE _________________+
| | (1136 - 1189) m 1175
| _THOMAS I de SAVOIE Count of Savoie__________________|
| | (1177 - 1233) m 1195 |
| | |_BEATRIX de MACON __________________________+
| | (1138 - 1184) m 1175
|_BEATRIX de SAVOIE of Savoie_____|
(1201 - 1266) m 1219 |
| _GUILLAUME I GENEVA ________________________+
| | (1130 - 1195) m 1177
|_MARGARET de GENEVA _________________________________|
(1180 - 1257) m 1195 |
|_BEATRIX de FAUCIGNY _______________________+
(1138 - ....) m 1177
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Mother: Eleanor LEA |
aka: Mary or Nancy Ann Vaughn ?
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_Cornelius VAUGHAN "the Immigrant"_|
| (1685 - 1734) m 1720 |
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_Martin VAUGHAN _____|
| (1726 - 1766) m 1759|
| | _Edward LEAVELL I "the Immigrant"_+
| | | (1685 - 1749) m 1704
| |_Elizabeth LEAVELL ________________|
| (1705 - 1775) m 1720 |
| |_Mary NIX ________________________
| (1680 - 1760) m 1704
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|--Nancy (Mary) Ann VAUGHAN
| (1762 - 1821)
| _William LEA\LEIGH IV_____________+
| | (1682 - 1784) m 1703
| _Francis LEA ______________________|
| | (1726 - 1763) |
| | |_Frances MAJOR ___________________+
| | (1684 - 1784) m 1703
|_Eleanor LEA ________|
(1740 - ....) m 1759|
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|_Ann WHITE ________________________|
(1725 - 1783) |
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