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MoOULLOCH, BEN. 



MEADE, WILLIAM. 



MoOULLOCH, BEX, a general in the Con- 

 federate army, born in Rutherford co., Tenn., 

 in 1814, killed in the battle of Pea Ridge, 

 March 7, 1862. He was a son of Alexander 

 McCulloch, who fought under Gen. Jackson at 

 the battles of Talladega, Tallahassee, and 

 Horseshoe, during the Creek war. He attended 

 school in Tennessee until he was 14 years of 

 age, and from that time until 21 was mostly en- 

 gaged in hunting, in which occupation he be- 

 came highly skilled. This life gave him a taste 

 for adventure, and, upon learning of an expe- 

 dition of trappers to the Rocky Mountains, he 

 made arrangements to join them ; failing in 

 this, however, he engaged to join the expedi- 

 tion of David Crockett to Texas, to take part 

 in the revolution ; but, arriving at Nacogdoches, 

 the place of rendezvous, too late, he proceeded 

 alone to the river Brazos, where he was taken 

 sick, and did not recover until after the fall of 

 the Alamo. In 1836 he joined the Texan army 

 under Gen. Sam Houston, and was assigned to 

 the artillery. He served gallantly at the battle 

 of San Jacinto, and afterward settled in Gon- 

 zales co., Texas, and was employed on the fron- 

 tier, surveying and locating lands. Upon the 

 breaking out of the Mexican war he raised a 

 company of Texan rangers, and arrived at the 

 seat of war four days after the battles of Palo 

 Alto and the Resaca. His company were ac- 

 cepted by Gen. Taylor, and won great honor 

 at the battles of Monterey and Buena Vista. 

 He afterward joined Gen. Scott's army, and 

 for his gallant services at the taking of the city 

 of Mexico, was appointed United States Mar- 

 shal of Texas by President Pierce. In 1857, 

 he was appointed, in conjunction with ex- 

 Governor Powell, commissioner to Utah. At 

 the time of the inauguration of President Lin- 

 coln he was in Washington, it was believed, 

 making arrangements, at the head of a body of 

 secessionists, to take possession of the city; 

 but, owing to the precautions of Gen. Scott, 

 the idea was abandoned. He was subsequently 

 made brigadier-general in the Confederate 

 army, and assigned the command of the Ar- 

 kansas forces. In June, 1861, he issued a proc- 

 lamation to the people of Arkansas to assemble 

 at Fayetteville to defend the State from inva- 

 sion from Missouri. He commanded at the 

 battle of Wilson's Creek, where Gen. Lyon was 

 killed, and, it was said, having some misunder- 

 standing with Gen. Price, surrendered the com- 

 mand to him. At the battle of Pea Ridge he 

 led a corps of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas 

 troops, and fell on the second day of the en- 

 gagement. 



McNAB, SIR ALLAN NAPIER, Bart., a Cana- 

 dian statesman, born at Niagara, C. W., Feb. 

 19, 1798, died at Toronto, C. W., Aug. 8, 1862. 

 He was of Scottish family, his father, lieutenant 

 Allan McNab, having been appointed by Gen. 

 Simcoe one of his aids when he came to ex- 

 plore Canada, and his grandfather having been 

 a captain of the 42d Highlanders. At the age 

 of 14 the subject of this notice joined the 



grenadiers of the 8th regiment, who were 

 stationed for the defence of Toronto, when at- 

 tacked by the Americans in 1812, and was 

 compelled to retreat with his regiment to 

 Kingston. He was promoted to the rank of 

 ensign during the war, but at its conclusion left 

 the service and commenced the study of law at 

 Toronto. In 1824 he was admitted to the bar 

 and settled in his profession at Hamilton, C. W., 

 where his public enterprise greatly contributed 

 to the growth and improvement of the city. 

 In 1829 he was elected a member of the Pro- 

 vincial Assembly from the county of Went- 

 worth, and after serving three terms was re- 

 turned by the electors of the city of Hamilton. 

 In the ensuing session he was chosen Speaker 

 in the House of Assembly, and was serving in 

 this capacity, when the rebellion, headed by 

 William Lyon Mackenzie, broke out. Sir F. B. 

 Head wrote to him informing him of the peril 

 in which the Government was placed, and he 

 immediately marched from Toronto at the head 

 of the militia, routed the insurgents on the 7th 

 of Dec. 1837, and soon after seized the Caro- 

 line, a steamer used by the insurgents for com- 

 munication with the American shore, set it 

 on fire and sent it over Niagara Falls. This 

 act occasioned much excitement in the United 

 States, and led to some threats, but the Eng- 

 lish Government sustained Colonel McNab, and 

 on the 14th of July, 1838, he was knighted by 

 patent, and received the thanks of the governor- 

 general of Canada, and the Provincial Legisla- 

 tures. The Union of the Upper and Lower 

 Provinces deprived him of his emoluments of 

 office as speaker, and the governor-general 

 asked the British Government for compensa- 

 tion for him, but was refused. He was subse- 

 quently a member of the provincial cabinet, 

 under several administrations, and prime minis- 

 ter in 1854-6. In Feb. 1858 he was created 

 a baronet of the United Kingdom. He subse- 

 quently spent three years in England, and in 

 1859 contested Brighton, Eng., for Parliament, 

 in the conservative interest, but was defeated. 

 His title became extinct with his death, as he 

 left no male issue. 



MEADE, RT. REV. WILLIAM, D. D., a bishop 

 of the Protestant Episcopal church, in the 

 State of Virginia, born in Virginia, Nov. 

 11, 1789, died at his residence near Millwood, 

 Clark co., Va., March 14, 1862. He was a 

 son of Col. Meade, the confidentialaid of Gen. 

 Washington, graduated at Princeton College, 

 N. J., in 1808, and, in 1811, was ordained to 

 the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. 

 He was a man of marked character and exten- 

 sive influence. He took an active part in the 

 establishment of a diocesan theological semi- 

 nary, and various educational and missionary 

 societies connected with his denomination in 

 Virginia. In 1829 he was elected and conse- 

 crated assistant bishop of that State, and, upon 

 the death of Bishop Moore, in 1841, took the 

 sole charge of the diocese. In 1842, ill health 

 obliged him to apply for an assistant, and Dr. 



