The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-08-21
a N oble U G Confederate.

Editor OF The Times-D ispat CHI: $
n Sr,-VFill you please let the following
letter appear In your Sunday edition?
fs$in$That edition OF July 18th, In the
query and Answer column, appeared
the following: 3fS IL S lj33
Please, tell inc where Captain lanes d.
tBnloch (who wrote The Secret Service
Of tho Confederate States In EnropeOG
WIS born, and when /? q What he did after
the war;. aid, i dead. where and when
did lie die. etc. Very truly, Subscriber
8 ! In reply, letsne say that Captain James.
ID. 13ulloch was one d Cieorgia's most
3distl,1gr el, |aed men Ills! bravery and
patriotism was widespread in his splen-,
did achievements as an officer in tile
naval service OF the Confederate States.
He WAS born in liberty county, Ga. in
1S255innd sprangf from $as noble ancestry
! Afterl the Revolutionary war his great
grandfather became the first Governor Q +
Georgia. Liberty county is in the eastern
part OF the State, q sh ort distance below
Savannah; Il her borders on the east arc
washed q by 81 he waves J. Of the Atlantic
ocean, That accounts, to- some extent
lifor his 5fondness for q seafaring life.
In 1870 he entered the United States navy,
and rose to the rank 8of lieutenant. Ina
few years thereafter lie! resigned md ac-
lcepted service In the Cromwell steamship
Nno oeA%venb hyew York and New Orleans
The opening of llostilities between the
North and South found Captain Bulloch
| In &com1nand Of the SBenville, which af-
ltcrwards. became a terror to our block
desrunners. II promptly resigned and
i offered 4 his services and his experience
OF many years to his people-to his be-
lloved Southland. President Davis, recoS-
Inizing IN Captain Bulloch man Of In
z a No. n h
! try md the Southern cause, selected him
4 as his financial agent and sent him 10
4 Europe to supply our armies with arms
4 and ammunition.
j The successful entry Of the Ningal.
i under his command, into Savannah, loaded
Il with arms and ammunition, supplied the
4 Immediate needs of our soldiers 4 t Was
Through his constant efforts and exer-
4 tons that the Confederate CONNIE rec de-
4 stroyers owed their success. He arrived
i in liverpool on the 4tr of June, 1901, and
had built the following model gunboals:
4 the Alexandria, Florida and Alabama.
Y After that he built Two ironclads on
4 the Mercy, whlch-werc Illegally seized
: land incorporated into the British navy,
/ lie WAS held In the highest esteem, and
\ lhid The Confidence OF Messrs. Mason and
4 Slidell. But few characters among the
brilliant officers of tho Confederate navy
outshoWn the name of this splendid man
whose constant work during the wal
4 gained for him the love and esteem Of
lrthe whole Southern people. ~
In personal appearance (from a picture
!. Il have seen of himl lie was not unlike
!, General Joseph u. Johnston, he was
j truly an old-tlme gentleman, lreared il
* the old South by the host Of Georgia
! mothers, during those good old days. Y!
. auaintly pictured by our lamented '3ii
! lArp,. In his ''Humor and Philosophy
I Ihen he ;lludes to the old things. sucl
: as homemade chairs, homemade Jeans
J The old back log and the crane tina
q SWING In the kitchen fireplace and +
! home-inade baskets and shuck collars an,
= stuck foot-matn and dominlcker chick
2 ems and old-fashoned COWS and pare
= yp,}c and opodeldohk and salts and sas
2 safrat tea. Some did things arc goo
= yet Historians will not forget to enro
- his name ON their pages, and thereby re
4 serye for postenty the heroic deviation 4
q Iris man. WHO Sacrificed Ills all for
/, tlost cause.
I0l Captain James ID, I,ullochdIe at Liver
j. pcoi England, January Z, 1901 at III
q, residence Of his soncin-law, M. III. MaS
M well, Esq, at the age Of seyenty-seyei
10 Two datshiers survive him, lie WAS
II. brother of thai good woman, the mothe
~ nf President Theodore Roosevelt
sol am indebted t6 our comrade. 4 he lnt
en- lieutenant Richard y, Armstrong, a M
81 tive OF Macon. Gar fos much informs