Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Name |
Ambrotype |
Title |
Benjamin McCulloch |
Catalog Number |
FIC2009.00065 |
Description |
Ninth-plate ambrotype with color added; man seated in chair, facing camera, hair parted on side, cut at ear level with poofs from wearing a hat, full beard and moustache with cheeks tinted pink, broad bow tie, vest and frock coat with wide lapels, left arm resting on back of chair, right hand in lap, in civilian dress, watch chain hanging in loop from vest button hole to watch pocket at right; door section has lock of hair sewn into velvet lining on interior; double elliptical embossed gilt mat; preserver has stamped foliate scroll design; red felt pad [faded] embossed with paisley scrol design; case is leather-covered wood, exterior obverse and reverse sections embossed with geometric scroll motif; obverse and reverse sections held together with black cloth tape; brass latch and eye in tact; lock of hair enclosed. |
Medium |
Brass/Felt/Glass/Leather//Metal/Paint/Wood |
Studio |
Unknown |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Owner Regiment |
Army of the West |
Provenance |
Tennessee-born Benjamin McCulloch was a hero of his adopted state of Texas. He was a soldier in both the battle of San Jacinto in the Texas war for independence and in the Mexican War under Gen. Zachary Taylor. He was a colonel of Texas state troops in 1861 and appointed a brigadier general in the Confederacy. He led his troops in the victory at Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, August 1861 but was felled by a sharpshooter at Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge), Arkansas, on March 7, 1862. At the time of his death, McCulloch was the second-ranking brigadier general in Confederate service. A lock of his hair is enclosed with the photograph. |
People |
McCulloch, Benjamin |
Search Terms |
Army of the West Battle of Pea Ridge / Elkhorn Tavern Battle of Wilson's Creek / Oak Hills Texas Texas Revolution Mexican American War |
Subjects |
Ambrotypes Cased photographs Casualties, War civilians Dead persons Hair men Military officers Photographic studios Photographs Sharpshooting War casualties |