Camp Henry E. McCullouch
Victoria, Victoria County, Texas
Marker Inscription
At the suggestion of Confederate Col. Henry McCullouch, an area near this site north of Victoria, known as Nuner's Mott, was selected for the establishment of a military training camp in 1861. Troops from Bell, Bexar, Calhoun, DeWitt, Gonzales, Guadalupe, Matagorda, Travis, and Victoria counties began arriving that September. Col. Robert Garland of Virginia was appointed regimental commander. The entire regiment, now known as the Sixth Texas Infantry, trained at Camp McCullouch until May 1862. Captured at Arkansas Post in 1863, the regiment later fought in the Battles of Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville before finally surrendering with the Army of Tennessee in North Carolina. (1998)
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
In the opening months of the Civil War, the Confederacy scrambled to raise and drill volunteers across Texas. At the suggestion of Col. Henry McCullouch, a site near Victoria known as Nuner's Mott was chosen in 1861 to muster and train recruits drawn from nine surrounding counties. The men formed the Sixth Texas Infantry, drilling here into the spring of 1862 before marching to a hard war — captured at Arkansas Post, then fighting through Missionary Ridge, Atlanta, Franklin, and Nashville. They finally laid down their arms with the Army of Tennessee in North Carolina.
Why it matters
The camp shows how the Confederate war effort was assembled county by county, and how a single Texas regiment's path traced some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war's western theater.
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Related people
- · Henry McCullouch
- · Robert Garland
Related events
- · American Civil War
- · Battle of Arkansas Post
- · Battle of Missionary Ridge
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