The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers; or, the Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico--1846; including Skirmishes with the Mexicans, and an accurate detail of the Storming of Monterey; also the Daring Scouts at Buena Vista together with anecdotes, incidents, descriptions of country, and sketches of the lives of the celebrated partisan chiefs, Hays, McCulloch, and Walker. Page: 24
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24 CAPTAIN McCULLOCH.
McCulloch, however, generally killed as many as eighty bears
in the course of a season, and never less than twenty during a
winter.
When about twenty-one, being fond of a life of adventure, he
determined to go on an expedition to the Rocky Mountains, and
left his home for St. Louis, to join a company of trappers; but
arriving too late he was disappointed, when he tried to get in with a
party of Santa Fe traders; in this he likewise failed, the complement
of men having been made up. He then visited the lead mines
in Wiscbnsin territory, and remained during the summer at Dodgeville.In September, McCulloch returned home, and soon after his
arrival, called on Colonel David Crockett, who was making up an
expedition to go to Texas, to take part in the revolution that had
then broken out in Mexico; the whole south-west at that time was
alive with feelings of sympathy for the Texians, and were daily
flocking to their standard. McCulloch agreed to accompany Colonel
Crockett to Texas. Nacogdoches had been appointed the
place of rendezvous from which the expedition was to start, and
the Christmas of 1835was named the day for the meeting-when,
as "( old Davy" said, they were to make their Christmas dinner
off the hump of a buffalo! Unfortunately, however, McCulloch
did not arrive until early in January, and finding the party was
gone, he proceeded on by himself to the river Brazos, where he
was taken very ill, and did not recover until after the fall of the
Alamo. McCulloch's disappointment was very great at not being
able to join the gallant band of patriots at the/time, but which
afterwards proved very fortunate for him; for Colonel Travis,
after having sustained a siege for thirteen days with only one
hundred and eighty Texians against Santa Anna's army, fell with
his brave little band, having previously killed nine hundred of the
enemy!
After his recovery, he descended the Brazos river in a boat to
Gross Plant, where the Texian army had assembled under General
Houston, and was induced to join the artillery by their making
him captain of a gun. This he gallantly served at the battle of
San Jacinto, where Santa Anna was made prisoner, and his army
of 1500 killed or captured.
McCulloch settled in Gonzales county, and was afterwards employed
on the frontier of Texas, in surveying and locating lands,
and serving in the wild border scouts against the Indians and
Mexicans, which service he entered before the celebrated Hays.
He also distinguished himself in a fight with the Indians, who
burnt Linnville, called the battle of Plum Creek. He was likewise
at the taking of Mier, but not agreeing with the plans of the
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Reid, Samuel C., Jr. The Scouting Expeditions of McCulloch's Texas Rangers; or, the Summer and Fall Campaign of the Army of the United States in Mexico--1846; including Skirmishes with the Mexicans, and an accurate detail of the Storming of Monterey; also the Daring Scouts at Buena Vista together with anecdotes, incidents, descriptions of country, and sketches of the lives of the celebrated partisan chiefs, Hays, McCulloch, and Walker., book, 1859; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth38096/m1/27/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.