From Wikipedia.
Yesterday I posted about Irvine Bulloch being the officer who boarded the British ship Barracouta who retrieved the newspapers that confirmed that the Confederacy was no more. I'd never heard of him before, but the last name Bulloch was the same as the Confederate purchasing agent in Liverpool, England, who had bought the Alabama and Shenandoah, James Bulloch. Could they be related?
June 25, 1842-July 14, 1898
Officer in the Confederate States Navy and the youngest officer on the CSS Alabama. Fired the last shot from the Alabama before the ship sank.
He was the half brother of James Dunwoody Bulloch, so they were.
Also of interest was that Irvine Bulloch was the full brother of socialite Martha Stewart "Mittie" Bulloch, the mother of future U.S. President Theodore "T.R." Roosevelt and paternal grandmother of First Lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
--Old B-R'er
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