James Dunwoody Bulloch

James Dunwoody Bulloch (June 25, 1823 – January 7, 1901) was the Confederacy's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War. Based in Liverpool, he operated blockade runners and commerce raiders that provided the Confederacy with its only source of hard currency. Bulloch arranged for the purchase by British merchants of Confederate cotton, as well as the dispatch of armaments and other war supplies to the South. He also oversaw the construction and purchase of several ships designed at ruining Northern shipping during the Civil War, including CSS Florida, CSS Alabama, CSS Stonewall, and CSS Shenandoah. Due to him being a Confederate secret agent, Bulloch was not included in the general amnesty that came after the Civil War and therefore decided to stay in Liverpool, becoming the director of the Liverpool Nautical College and the Orphan Boys Asylum.

James Dunwoody Bulloch
BornJune 25, 1823
Savannah, Georgia
DiedJanuary 7, 1901
Liverpool, England
AllegianceUnited States
Confederate States of America
Service/branchUnited States Navy
Confederate States Navy
Years of service1839–1854 USN
1861–1865 CSN
RankCommander (CSN)
Commands heldUSS State of Georgia (1853)
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Euphemia Caskie (1851–1854)
Harriott Cross Foster (1857–1901)
Children5

Bulloch's half-brother Irvine Bulloch was a Confederate naval officer and his half-sister Martha Roosevelt was the mother of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and paternal grandmother of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

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