James Dunwoody Bulloch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

James Dunwoody Bulloch

Civil War Confederate Veteran

Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1823

Place of Birth: Savannah, Georgia, United States

Date of Death: 07-Jan-1901

Profession: spy

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About 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 unofficial purchase by Britain of Confederate cotton, and the dispatch of armaments and other war supplies to the South.
  • His secret service funds are alleged to have been used for the planning of Lincoln's assassination. Bulloch's half-sister Martha was the mother of U.S.
  • President Theodore Roosevelt and grandmother of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

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