Many are familiar with Texas Brig. Gen. Benjamin McCulloch, killed at Pea Ridge, but maybe not so much with his younger brother, Brig. Gen. Henry Eustace McCulloch.
The only
known photographs of Henry are postwar, but I ran across the ambrotypes below on Cowan's Auctions that are thought to possibly be to be a wartime image of him in uniform and another in civilian clothing.
Description from Cowan's Auctions:
Lot of 2, featuring a ninth plate ambrotype of a Confederate officer in uniform, his buttons lightly tinted gold, housed in full, octagonal thermoplastic case. Accompanied by a sixth plate ambrotype of the same man, younger in appearance, dressed in civilian attire, housed in full pressed paper case. These two images were found together with the collection of photographs of Benjamin McCulloch that descended directly in the McCulloch family, and it has been suggested that the subject may be Benjamin's brother, Henry Eustace McCulloch (1816-1895), who was a soldier in the Texas Revolution, a Texas Ranger, and a Confederate Brigadier General. However, this identification cannot be confirmed.
Provenance: Descended Directly in the Family of Henry E. McCulloch, Brother to Benjamin McCulloch
Condition: Some loss to emulsion of ninth plate ambrotype as well as sixth plate ambrotype. Some wear to cases.
https://www.cowanauctions.com/lot/n...ficer-possibly-henry-eustace-mcculloch-892330
They do bear a strong resemblance to his known postwar images.
Like his older brother Ben, Henry had served as a Texas Ranger in antebellum years; he also served in the state legislature and as U.S. Marshall for the eastern district of Texas. At the war's outset he was commissioned a colonel and appointed command of the 1st Texas Mounted Rifles, which patrolled the Texas frontier and helped round up Federal outposts in the state during the early months of the war.
Henry then held various department and district commands in Texas throughout the later half of 1861 and into 1862. He was promoted to brigadier general in March 1862, organizing and briefly commanding a division of Texas troops until Maj. Gen. John G. Walker later assumed command. Henry then took command of the Third Brigade of Walker's Texas Division, leading them in the battle of Milliken's Bend, La., June 7, 1863. He then left the Texas Division the following month in July, assuming command of the Northern Sub-District of Texas throughout the remainder of the war, where he mainly oversaw protection against Indian raids as well as dealing with Confederate deserters and bushwhackers.