Life of American Civil War secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch commemorated on Rumford Place
THE great-granddaughter of a Liverpool legend flew in from Australia to unveil a new city centre plaque in his honour yesterday.
Barbara Elliott was joined by local historians and American Civil War experts to remember the life of James Dunwoody Bulloch, the Confederate States’ Navy secret purchasing agent during the 1861-65 war.
Bulloch was born in Georgia, but spent most of his life working in Rumford Court offices, in Liverpool city centre.
He came to Liverpool to arrange smuggling cotton through the Union’s naval blockade.
And he gained notoriety for commissioning the CSS Alabama to be built at Laird’s shipyard in Birkenhead.
The commerce raider wreaked havoc on Unionist ships on the open seas.
When the war ended with victory for the unionists, Bulloch was exiled in Liverpool as a traitor and is buried in Toxteth.
