Invitation to Free Lecture About the Amazing Civil War Exploits of Georgian James Dunwoody Bulloch
Invitation to Free Lecture About the Amazing Civil War Exploits of Georgian James Dunwoody Bulloch
FREE LECTURE - COME ONE, COME ALL
James Dunwoody Bulloch: The Amazing Life of Theodore Roosevelt’s Uncle
Monday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 1915 Nessmith-Lane Building
Georgia Southern University’s home town of Statesboro is the seat of Bulloch County, named in honor of Revolutionary War leader Archibald Bulloch. Archibald’s great-grandson, the Savannah-born James Dunwoody Bulloch (1823-1901), became the Confederacy’s primary naval agent in Europe where he oversaw construction of ships designed to disrupt Northern sea-traffic during the Union Blockade.
When the Civil War broke out—150 years ago this year—James D. Bulloch had served 14 years in the United States Navy. Early in the conflict, he moved to Liverpool, England, quickly bringing the CSS Florida and CSS Alabama into service. The latter ship sailed many waters, from the Irish Sea and North Atlantic Ocean to the South China Sea. It captured 65 and boarded several hundred Union merchant vessels before being sunk by the USS Kearsarge in the summer of 1864. Its wreckage was located off Cherbourg, France in 1984. Bulloch lived out his post-War days in Liverpool, directing the city’s Nautical College and (at Teddy Roosevelt’s urging) writing a memoir, The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe.
Georgia Southern alumnus Dr. Gary McKay is the Director of Research and Development for AIG London and Chief Researcher for Float Research UK, a dedicated geospatial engineering firm that specializes in remote sensing and digital mapping. An Adjunct Professor with the Georgia Southern Center for International Studies, he is an associate of the Royal Geographical Society, the US Naval Institute, and the Navy League of the United States of America, among other bodies. McKay has 17 years experience in the US Navy and US Army, interfacing with the electronic intelligence, intelligence analysis, and counterintelligence communities. Having earned a double major in Spanish and Geography from Georgia Southern, McKay went on to obtain an MSc in Geography (Remote Sensing) from St. Cloud State University and a PhD in Engineering (Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing) from Edinburgh University. He has been an associate researcher with the Oriental Institute of University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, and he is currently serving as an external researcher for a joint archaeological expedition between Yale University and NASA in and around Timbuktu, Mali. McKay has appeared on multiple BBC and Channel 4 UK documentaries about archaeology and the use of satellite imagery. His 2009 book The Sea King: The Life of James Iredell Waddell became a UK best-seller.
Captain Walter E. Wilson is Assistant Director for the Texas Department of Information Resources. Previously he was a vice president in a defense-technology consulting firm, having entered the private sector after a 28-year career as a Naval Intelligence Officer. A recipient of the Bronze Star and Legion of Merit (twice), Wilson served at sea off the domestic East and West coasts, as well as off Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom. He has an MS in Information Management from Marymount University; an MA in Management from Pepperdine University; a BA in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin; and a GIAC Security Leadership Certification (GSLC). He is the current Vice President and a former President of the Navy League of the United States (Alamo Council), and he regularly contributes articles to the Naval Intelligence Professionals Quarterly and such map journals as Neatline and Portolan.
This program is co-sponsored by the Center for International Studies, the Center for Irish Studies, and the Zach S. Henderson Library.
W. Bede Mitchell, Ed.D.
Dean of the Zach S. Henderson Library
Georgia Southern University
P.O. Box 8074
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