Samuel McCulloch Jr.

Samuel McCulloch Jr. joined the Matagorda Volunteer Company under the command of George M. Collinsworth, even though he had only lived in Texas for five months.

McCulloch attempted to storm into the officers' barracks and in the process took a bullet to the shoulder, which made him among the first soldiers wounded in the Texas Revolution.

By April 1836, McCulloch was able to return home, although the family was forced to flee as the advancing Mexican Army drove the Texan revolutionaries north.

[1] On July 8 of that year, McCulloch's wound would be finally tended to by a doctor, who removed the musket ball from his shoulder.

With the passing of the Texas Constitution in 1836, all people of African and Native American descent were denied citizenship.