The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-10-12
Gen. mcCulloel,.


The St. Louis papers will have it that Ben.
McCulloch is dead. The Republican says edito'i.
ally:
We have letter from well informed gentle
man ut Rolla, which states there is reliable news
there, that Gen. Ben McCulloch did die at Fay.
ettevlle of the wound he received at the battle
of Springfield. He neglected proper medical
treatment, saying no Dutchman could kill him.
This news comes from several sources in the
Southwest, and is also fought by men who have
just arrived from Arkansas. The report is cur
rent and believed at Springfield
The language of the "weil informed gentleman
from R0lla," is us follows:
A gentleman who left Mansfield on Monday
last, arrived here yesterday (4th.) He says that
Mr.. Lee, citizen of Marshfield, who had Just
returned from Camp Walker, where he had gone
on business with the army, reports that there
are about 5000 thousand men at Camp Walker,
under the command of a nephew of Gen. McCul
Tough. McCulloch himself, he was told, died a
day or two previous. Two men who live in Car
roll county, Arkansas, near the Missouri line,
have arrived. They say that it is generally be.
lieved there that McCulloch had died of his
wound received at Springfield He is said to
have neglected his wound until too late, when he
had his leg amputated and died from the effects
OF it three days afterward.
A Major Wright, who had just arrived at Rol.
la from the Southwest gives the correspondent
of the democrat this version of the course ofthe
taking-olf of the mysterious and ubiquitous Ben
A physician, well known to the Major, whose
name | am not permitted to use, arrived from the
Southwest on Tuesday evening, and called at the
Majors tent This physician was formerly a
partner of DR.. Smell, NcCulloch's surgeon in Par
ish, Texas. The former very recently had all in.
,r:t LII
him that in the battle of the 10th McCulloch was
shot through the hips, and glance bail struck
him in the forehead. Soon after making his re.
port of the battle, McCulloch with the Texan
forces was ordered back to Texas, but after
reaching Camp Chesapeake, near Mount Vernon,
he died from his wounds. Before he expired he
spoke freely of the manner of his treatment by
the MissUurians, and declared that if he had
known the true position of affairs he would new.
err have entered the State.
His body was placed in metallic coffin and
conveyed to Texas. His death was concealed
even from his own men for time, it being the
policy of the surviving leaders to operate on the
prestige of his name. His son, Ben McCulloch,
jr., was therefore placed in nominal command,
in order to keep up the deception.
The same authority also gives an account of
the difficulties between McCulloch and Price,
Ane heAe uay a'seF lhe oattie' oiVision OF the
spells and quarrel took place between the two
Generals. McCulloch ended by telling Price
that he had been grossly deceived by the Mis-
sourians, and that the latter were all set of
id oowards that when it came to the pinch,
he lMcCulloch) had to do the fighting, but when
they came to the division of the plumber .'they
wanted it all. He insisted that there "must be
an equitable division, or he would blow them all
to Ill.," and planted his batteries for fight
Price Immediately succumbed.
may add that Major Wright who is an old
acquaintance Of McCulloch having, as late as
winter before last, ranged with him one hundred
miles up the Colorado river,is convinced that the
latter is dead. This evidence is very direct; be.
sides, since the last of August nothing has been
observed in the movements of the army, or plan
of operations, indicating the presence Of a mas
ter-spirit like Ben. McCulloch