Henry Eustace McCulloch

In the 1830s he and his brother Ben rafted goods down the Mississippi before moving to Gonzales to survey land, and in 1839 he shot and killed Reuben Ross, who had drawn his pistols in a political quarrel. He was wounded at Plum Creek in 1840, slipped behind Mexican lines in 1842 and fought at Salado Creek. Commanding the Northern Sub-District late in the war, he tried and failed to arrest William Quantrill, and he rode home to Seguin under armed escort. In 1874 he helped Governor Richard Coke remove Edmund J. Davis from office.

What the plaque says

Henry Eustace McCulloch In this lot lie Henry Eustace McCulloch; Texas Ranging Service 1839-42; Texas Ranger Captain, Mexican War, 1847-48; State Legislator, 1853-59; U.S. Marshal, 1859-61; Colonel, 1st Texas Regiment Mounted Rifles, C.S.A.; Brigadier General, C.S.A. District Commander, Texas Brigade Commander, Vicksburg Campaign. His wife, Jane Isabella Ashby McCulloch Erected by the State of Texas 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sophienburg Museum and Archives — 14 mi
  The hilltop where Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels raised the Adelsverein's headquarters in 1845, now the museum and archive of the German colony that became New Braunfels.
• Gruene Historic District — 15 mi
  A cotton town on the Guadalupe that the boll weevil emptied, rescued in the 1970s by a kayaking architecture student, with a dance hall that says it has never closed.
• Spring Lake and the Meadows Center — 22 mi
  The headsprings of the San Marcos River, among the longest-inhabited places in North America, once an amusement park with a swimming pig and now seen from glass-bottom boats.
• Natural Bridge Caverns — 26 mi
  The largest known cavern in Texas, found in 1960 by four college cavers under a ranch family's land, entered beneath a 60-foot limestone bridge and still growing.

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• Juan Seguin — 1.7 mi
• Juan Nepomuceno Seguin — 1.7 mi
• Colonel John Ireland — 1.8 mi
• Guadalupe County, C.S.A. — 1.8 mi