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James D. Bulloch's Liverpool base

Site, Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Side
Confederate
Kind
Site
Where
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Years
1861-1865
Today
Marker only
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BULLOCH'S LIVERPOOL BASE

James D. Bulloch, the Confederacy's chief foreign agent, reached Liverpool less than two months after Fort Sumter. He turned cotton into hard currency for arms, uniforms and naval stores, and arranged the building or purchase of the Florida, Alabama, Stonewall and Shenandoah. He stayed on as a cotton broker and died here in 1901.

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Then

The Confederacy's chief foreign agent arrived in Liverpool less than two months after Fort Sumter and ran his purchasing from the city. He turned cotton into hard currency for arms, uniforms and naval stores, and arranged the building or purchase of the Florida, Alabama, Stonewall and Shenandoah.

Excluded from the postwar amnesty, Bulloch stayed in Liverpool as a cotton broker and died there in 1901.

Now

Marker only

His headstone is in Toxteth Park Cemetery. A sign on Rumford Place carries his portrait.

Nearby

Sources

  1. James Dunwoody Bulloch (Wikipedia)
  2. Blockade runners of the American Civil War (Wikipedia)
  3. Toxteth Park Cemetery (Wikipedia)