James Dunwoody Bulloch (June 25, 1823 – January 7, 1901)[1] 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 by Britain of Confederate cotton, and the dispatch 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.Theodore Roosevelt and grandmother of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.
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