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Struck by a sandstorm while crossing a desert (in what is now Arizona), he and most of the men were killed. His remains were never recovered.
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Archibald McNeill
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Archibald McNeill was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born in Moore County, North Carolina; member of the State House of Commons in 1808 and 1809; served in the State senate 1811-1813, 1820, and 1821; elected to the Seventeenth Congress; elected to the Nineteenth Congress; moved to the Republic of Texas in 1836; in 1849 raised and was chosen captain of about one hundred men who started for California, where gold had been discovered.
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