William McCullough American

A captain in the American militia, William McCullough was a leader of the Kentucky Rangers during the early part of the war. He led skirmishes against the British and First Nations as General Hull’s army was positioning itself to march at Amherstburg. Apparently, McCullough had the distinction of having taken the first native scalp of the war. Only days later at Brownstown, McCullough was himself scalped, and his mutilated corpse served as a grisly warning to Americans in the area.