From the 10-21 entry.
The Charleston House in Liverpool was also called the "Confederate Embassy."
The Bulloch House is at Number 10 Rumford Place. Plaques above these buildings have portraits of Jefferson Davis, James Bulloch and Raphael Semmes.
The Fraser Trenholm office is at the Alabama House which is also located by the other two. Fraser Trenholm owned a large fleet of blockade-runners.
During the war years, many Confederate Naval officers entered these houses, including John Newland Maffitt, James Iredel Waddell and John Wilkinson.
Quite the little hotbed of the Confederacy abroad.
So, you can visit Liverpool and get you Reb on as well as your Beatles.
She Loves You, Yeh, Yeh, Yeh. --B-R'er
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
Showing posts with label James D. Bulloch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James D. Bulloch. Show all posts
Friday, October 22, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Some More on the James D. Bulloch Plaque in Liverpool, UK-- Part 2
The ceremony was held at Charleston House in Liverpool, the home of the unofficial European bankers of the Confederacy.
Afterwards the group visited other Confederate sites in the area, including the Liver Inn on South Road which is used by Confederate re-enactors who meet their annually before taking a trip out to Bulloch's grave in Toxteth Cemetery.
Then, they went to Marine Terrace, where Bulloch and his wife Harriot lived with their children James Dunwoody, Jr., Jessie Hart and Henry Dunwoody.
Visits were also made to Wellington Street, Claremont House, Cambridge Road and St. John's Church where all the couple's babies were christened.
The article didn't mention it, but I'm sure they went to Bulloch's grave in Toxteth Cemetery.
Quite a Remarkable Man. --Old B-Runner
Afterwards the group visited other Confederate sites in the area, including the Liver Inn on South Road which is used by Confederate re-enactors who meet their annually before taking a trip out to Bulloch's grave in Toxteth Cemetery.
Then, they went to Marine Terrace, where Bulloch and his wife Harriot lived with their children James Dunwoody, Jr., Jessie Hart and Henry Dunwoody.
Visits were also made to Wellington Street, Claremont House, Cambridge Road and St. John's Church where all the couple's babies were christened.
The article didn't mention it, but I'm sure they went to Bulloch's grave in Toxteth Cemetery.
Quite a Remarkable Man. --Old B-Runner
Monday, October 18, 2010
Some More on the James D. Bulloch Plaque in Liverpool, UK-- Part 1
From the October 14th Crosby (UK) Herald "A step back in to Waterloo's US Civil War history" by Mark Johnson.
Barbara Elliott of Perth, Australia unveiled a plaque in Liverpool city centre in honor of her great grandfather James Dunwoody Bulloch, the Confederate States navy's secret purchasing agent in England.
He originally came to Liverpool to arrange cotton smuggling and lived in Waterloo because it was an isolated hamlet surrounded by fields at the time.
He was exiled to Liverpool after the war and buried at Toxteth Cemetery.
His great grand-daughter never met him. She said, "It's wonderful and very humbling to be here to honor my great-grandfather. It's a strange feeling to find out you're linked to a man who fought to change the course of history. But I'm excited to learn more about my heritage and I'm looking forward to a long relationship with the city."
More to Come. --Old B-Runner
Barbara Elliott of Perth, Australia unveiled a plaque in Liverpool city centre in honor of her great grandfather James Dunwoody Bulloch, the Confederate States navy's secret purchasing agent in England.
He originally came to Liverpool to arrange cotton smuggling and lived in Waterloo because it was an isolated hamlet surrounded by fields at the time.
He was exiled to Liverpool after the war and buried at Toxteth Cemetery.
His great grand-daughter never met him. She said, "It's wonderful and very humbling to be here to honor my great-grandfather. It's a strange feeling to find out you're linked to a man who fought to change the course of history. But I'm excited to learn more about my heritage and I'm looking forward to a long relationship with the city."
More to Come. --Old B-Runner
Saturday, October 9, 2010
James D. Bulloch Honored in Liverpool
From the October 7th Liverpool Echo.co.uk "Life of American Civil War secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch commemorated in Liverpool" by Rebecca Cole.
His great-granddaughter, Barbara Elliott, flew in from Australia to unveil the new plaque honoring James Bulloch in Liverpool. She was joined by historians and Civil War experts.
He served as secret purchasing agent for the Confederacy during the war,
He was born in Georgia but spent most of his life working in Rumford Court Offices in Liverpool city centre. During the war, he made arrangements to smuggle cotton through the Union blockade and also bought the CSS Alabama from Cammel Laird. Along with blockade-runners, he also was involved with the purchase of the CSS Florida.
Bulloch died in 1901 and left $30,000 to his nephew, the future President Theodore Roosevelt.
Later, he was exiled to Liverpool as a traitor and is buried in Toxteth.
On the Sly in the Civil War. --Old B-Runner
His great-granddaughter, Barbara Elliott, flew in from Australia to unveil the new plaque honoring James Bulloch in Liverpool. She was joined by historians and Civil War experts.
He served as secret purchasing agent for the Confederacy during the war,
He was born in Georgia but spent most of his life working in Rumford Court Offices in Liverpool city centre. During the war, he made arrangements to smuggle cotton through the Union blockade and also bought the CSS Alabama from Cammel Laird. Along with blockade-runners, he also was involved with the purchase of the CSS Florida.
Bulloch died in 1901 and left $30,000 to his nephew, the future President Theodore Roosevelt.
Later, he was exiled to Liverpool as a traitor and is buried in Toxteth.
On the Sly in the Civil War. --Old B-Runner
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