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Left to right, Roy Rawlinson, Bob Jones, Mark Sargant and Richard Harris.
Richard is the great great grandson of W.C Miller,
builder of the Florida, and great grandson of Capt. James Alexander Duguid,
who delivered the Florida to Capt. John Newland Maffitt.

L to R Mr. Mark Sargant, of Crosby Library, Mr Bob Jones, Local historian,
and Mr Roy Rawlinson, webmaster, When Liverpool Was Dixie.

RoyRawlinson

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An integral part of the ceremony was the presentation to the Crosby library, on behalf of the United Daughters Of The Confederacy, colour copies off all the resolutions from the Bulloch Commemoration event. This was the official gravemarking of james Dunwoody Bulloch, and Irvine Stephens Bulloch, on the 100th anniversary of James`s death. The presentation was made by Mr Bob Jones, and Roy Rawlinson read a message of goodwill from Mrs Annette Elam Wetzel.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy was honored to have been able to sponsor the grave marking ceremony for James Dunwoody Bulloch and his brother, Irvine Stephens Bulloch, in Toxteth Park Cemetery, Liverpool, on January 7, 2001. Both these men, from Georgia, served the Confederacy well and faithfully in the Confederate States Navy, one as Captain, and ultimately, Commander Bulloch, and the other as a midshipman, rising to the rank of lieutenant. After the War Between The States was lost, they remained in Liverpool as businessmen and cotton merchants, and contributors to English commerce. We can think of no better place in all of England than the Crosby Library to place these copies of the resolutions of tribute issued by Southern organizations on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the death of James Dunwoody Bulloch. He is closely associated with your town, having made his home in Waterloo during the years of the War Between The States, and having met with Commander Raphael Semmes possibly at the Liver Inn to plan the cruise of the CSS Alabama. Now we come to the second phase, the continuing efforts to remember the contributions of the Bulloch brothers to English and Southern history. This is the hard, and daily work, sometimes yielding little reward: efforts to include places of Confederate history in the already present Liverpool Heritage Walk sites, marking the graves of Arthur Sinclair, Sr., and of John Low, and restoring the gravestone of Irvine Stephens Bulloch in Toxteth Park Cemetery. Your exhibit will do much to assist in those efforts. Aside from the fact that the Bulloch brothers were maternal uncles of U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt, they were contributing citizens first of two countries, and then, of England, doing their duty as they saw that duty. We trust that your exhibit will portray them in that light. With continued help from our friends in Crosby, Bootle, Liverpool, Southport and elsewhere, the United Daughters of the Confederacy will continue efforts to commemorate the Bulloch brothers on this side of the Atlantic, and will return to Liverpool in July, 2003, to mark the graves of Low and Sinclair, and to rededicate the restored stone of Irvine Stephens Bulloch. It is our hope to visit your library at that time. On behalf of our President General, and with good wishes for continued good fortune to you and all our friends and compatriots in England, I remain, Sincerely, Annette Elam Wetzel Chairman, UDC Bulloch Project

The exhibiton itself was a MAJOR success.
After being on display in Crosby, it moved on to Maghull, and then, Liverpool Central Library.
Finally, it was opresented as a gift, to Bulloch Hall, Roswell, GA.,Bulloch`s home state, where it now resides.

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