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Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Episode 55 — Tales of the Rangers, Part V — Ben McCulloch
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Ben McCulloch was a Tier 1 Frontier Partisan — a highly capable scout and spy, and an outstanding combat leader. He was also an ardent pro-slavery Southern patriot, who died in battle in service of the Confederate States of America. All that makes him... complicated... for folks in the 21st Century, but he’s a man who should be remembered.
(Note: I know that there’s a weird repeat at the end. Couldn’t figure out how to get rid of it, and it doesn’t do any harm, so there it is, is, is).
Sources: Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition by Thomas W. Cuttrer
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I really enjoyed this podcast and would really like to hear one about Leander McNelly! I listened to this episode several times and I agree with your conclusion that slavery was an integral part of why the southern states seceded, but to dismiss the other injustices you mentioned as not being collectively as important and inseparable is another form of revisionist history. Great job on the McCullough story! The war may have turned out much different if Johnston and McCullough survived.🤔
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