James Dunwoody Bulloch

Who was James Dunwoody Bulloch?

James Dunwoody Bulloch 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 of Confederate cotton, and the despatch 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.