"Uncle Jimmy" Bulloch was a dear old retired sea-captain, utterly unable to "get on" in the worldly sense of that phrase, as valiant and simple and upright a soul as ever lived, a veritable Colonel Newcome.

He was an Admiral in the Confederate navy, and was the builder of the famous Confederate war vessel Alabama.

My uncle Irvine Bulloch was a midshipman on the _Alabama_, and fired the last gun discharged from her batteries in the fight with the _Kearsarge_.

Both of these uncles lived in Liverpool after the war.
My uncle Jimmy Bulloch was forgiving and just in reference to the Union forces, and could discuss all phases of the Civil War with entire fairness and generosity.

But in English politics he promptly became a Tory of the most ultra-conservative school.