Naval Service in The Confederacy
In 1861 Bulloch served as a midshipman aboard the CSS Nashville, visiting the port of Southampton in England. The Nashville returned to the Confederate States of America, and the James River squadron, where she was renamed the Rattlesnake.
Midshipman Bulloch was then posted to England for foreign service and he served with distinction aboard the CSS Alabama. Irvine's illustrious nephew, President Theodore Roosevelt, maintained that Irvine fired the last two shots from that vessel.
After the loss of the Alabama, Irvine returned to Liverpool and was sent out on the Laurel in October 1864 to join the Shenandoah as sailing master. It was Irvine who navigated the Shenandoah from just off San Francisco back to Liverpool, arriving on November 6, 1865. Upon his return to Liverpool, Irvine discovered that he had been promoted to lieutenant, but had no government to serve in that capacity as the Civil War was over and the Confederacy had collapsed into history.
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