Roosevelt Visits Irvine and James Bulloch
Irvine and his brother James Dunwoody Bulloch, who had served in the U.S. Navy for 14 years before joining a private shipping company, both were seafaring men. When the southern states attempted to leave the Union and the Civil War began in 1861, one of the first acts of Washington was to begin a strangling Federal naval blockade on the Confederacy. With these developments, Irvine and his brother James decided to serve the southern cause. In 1861, Irvine became a midshipman on the CSS Alabama, its construction having been arranged by his brother James and secret purchase by the Confederacy as a raider to prey upon Union shipping. Irvine fought against the United States government long after the surrender of Lee. He fired the last gun on the Cruiser CSS Alabama before it went down in the harbor of Cherbourg, France. His sword is still in the Confederate Museum in Liverpool, England. It would be seen by president and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt upon their visit to the city. At that same museum, it was of his gallant uncle that Mr. Roosevelt spoke in such affectionate and with such high praise.
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