Showing posts with label Bulloch Irvine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bulloch Irvine. Show all posts
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Bennett Green-- Part 2: A Photograph Taken in England, Autumn 1865
From ibiblio.org Acting Master Irvine S. Bulloch, CSN (1861-1865)
Photo # NH 59499 Former Confederate Naval officers. Taken Leamington Spa, England, Autumn 1865, following the return of the CSS Shenandoah.
Included:
Former Assistant Surgeon Edwin G. Booth
Former Acting Master Irvine S. Bulloch of the CSS Shenandoah
Former Passed Assistant Surgeon Bennett W. Green
Former 1st Lieutenant William H. Murdaugh
Former Passed Assistant Surgeon Charles H. Lining of the CSS Shenandoah
--Old B-R'er
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Irvine Stephens Bulloch-- Part 4
After the war, he was denied amnesty and remained in Liverpool working as a cotton merchant with his half brother, James Bulloch.
In 1869, his sister Mittie and the Roosevelt family toured Europe and a joyous reunion took place. Teddy Roosevelt, future president, was with his mother Mittie who had filled him with stories of the sea and his uncles. He later wrote "The Naval War in 1812."
Irvine Bulloch's sword is at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool. He lived the rest of his life in England, dying at age 58 and is buried at Toxteth Park cemetery in Liverpool.
Quite an Interesting Life. --Old B-Runner
In 1869, his sister Mittie and the Roosevelt family toured Europe and a joyous reunion took place. Teddy Roosevelt, future president, was with his mother Mittie who had filled him with stories of the sea and his uncles. He later wrote "The Naval War in 1812."
Irvine Bulloch's sword is at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in Liverpool. He lived the rest of his life in England, dying at age 58 and is buried at Toxteth Park cemetery in Liverpool.
Quite an Interesting Life. --Old B-Runner
Friday, December 4, 2015
Irvine Stephens Bulloch-- Part 3: Promoted, But No Country to Serve
Continued from November 21st.
After the loss of the his ship, the CSS Alabama, Irvine Bulloch returned to Liverpool and set out on the ship Laurent on October 1864 to join the CSS Shenandoah as its sailing master. It was Bulloch who navigated the ship from off San Francisco when they found out for sure that the war was over, to Liverpool where the ship surrendered to English authorities on November 6, 1865.
Once there, he found that he had been promoted to lieutenant, but he now had no country to serve.
--Old B-Runner
After the loss of the his ship, the CSS Alabama, Irvine Bulloch returned to Liverpool and set out on the ship Laurent on October 1864 to join the CSS Shenandoah as its sailing master. It was Bulloch who navigated the ship from off San Francisco when they found out for sure that the war was over, to Liverpool where the ship surrendered to English authorities on November 6, 1865.
Once there, he found that he had been promoted to lieutenant, but he now had no country to serve.
--Old B-Runner
Saturday, November 21, 2015
Irvine Srephens Bulloch-- Part 2: First and Last to Show Colors in English Waters
He was born in Roswell, Georgia and joined the Confederate States Navy as a midshipman and served on the CSS Nashville in 1861 when it went to England then returned to the Confederacy at Beaufort, N.C.and became the blockade-runner Thomas L. Wragg..
As the Nashville, she was the first to show the Confederate flag in English waters (and later Irvine Bulloch was on the last Confederate ship to show the colors in English waters). She also was the first commerce raider to destroy a Union merchant ship. (And the Shenandoah was the last to do so.)
Later the ship became the privateer Rattlesnake until she was destroyed the monitor USS Montauk by Fort McAllister, Georgia in 1863.
However, Bullock left the ship when it got to Beaufort and was later posted to England for foreign service. He served with distinction on the CSS Alabama and, according to his nephew, Theodore Roosevelt, fired the last two shots from the doomed cruiser in its battle with the USS Kearsarge.
--Old B-Runner
As the Nashville, she was the first to show the Confederate flag in English waters (and later Irvine Bulloch was on the last Confederate ship to show the colors in English waters). She also was the first commerce raider to destroy a Union merchant ship. (And the Shenandoah was the last to do so.)
Later the ship became the privateer Rattlesnake until she was destroyed the monitor USS Montauk by Fort McAllister, Georgia in 1863.
However, Bullock left the ship when it got to Beaufort and was later posted to England for foreign service. He served with distinction on the CSS Alabama and, according to his nephew, Theodore Roosevelt, fired the last two shots from the doomed cruiser in its battle with the USS Kearsarge.
--Old B-Runner
Friday, November 20, 2015
Irvine Stephens Bulloch-- Part 1: Brother of James Bulloch and Teddy Roosevelt's Uncle
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
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
Thursday, November 19, 2015
The Final Confederate Surrender-- Part 1: "Star By Star the Galaxy of Our Flag Had Faded"
From the Nov. 6, 2015, History by Christopher Klein.
On August 2, 1865, the CSS Shenandoah came across a British ship, the bark Barracouta. Irvine Bulloch, CSN, boarded it and returned with devastating news. The Confederacy had surrendered, and not recently, but several months earlier. This was confirmed by newspapers the ship had aboard.
The Shenandoah had been cut off from the outside world as it pillaged the New England whaling fleet in the north Pacific and Arctic oceans. Some of them had mentioned that the war was over, but that might have just been them trying not to have their ship destroyed.
Now, with it in print, surrender became all too real.
Cornelius Hunt, on the Shenandoah, sadly wrote: "Our gallant generals, one after another, had been forced to surrender the armies they had so often led to victory. State after state had been overrun and occupied by the countless myriads of our enemies. Star by star the galaxy of our flag had faded, and the Southern Confederacy had ceased to exist."
--Old B-Runner
On August 2, 1865, the CSS Shenandoah came across a British ship, the bark Barracouta. Irvine Bulloch, CSN, boarded it and returned with devastating news. The Confederacy had surrendered, and not recently, but several months earlier. This was confirmed by newspapers the ship had aboard.
The Shenandoah had been cut off from the outside world as it pillaged the New England whaling fleet in the north Pacific and Arctic oceans. Some of them had mentioned that the war was over, but that might have just been them trying not to have their ship destroyed.
Now, with it in print, surrender became all too real.
Cornelius Hunt, on the Shenandoah, sadly wrote: "Our gallant generals, one after another, had been forced to surrender the armies they had so often led to victory. State after state had been overrun and occupied by the countless myriads of our enemies. Star by star the galaxy of our flag had faded, and the Southern Confederacy had ceased to exist."
--Old B-Runner
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