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If ancestry contributes to the character of a man, one can well understand the charisma, the fortitude, and the adventurous spirit of President Theodore Roosevelt. Built upon five American generations of his maternal Scots bloodline--the Bullochs of Georgia--Theodore could have been no less. This book centers on the life story of James Stephens Bulloch, Theodore's maternal grandfather. Yet, the tale began in the 1720s with the first James Bulloch's immigration to the American colonies. He was a Scotsman, who became devoted to the Patriot Cause. The story continued with his son Archibald, a member of Georgia's Sons of Liberty and the First Continental Congress, who rose to the office of President of Georgia. Archibald's son James became a captain during the American Revolutionary War and followed in his father's footsteps as a civil servant. Captain Bulloch's son, Major James Stephens Bulloch, continued the family tradition of military service. This biography relates the life of a man of varied interests and numerous occupations, a learned man, an aristocratic Southern gentleman. Based almost entirely upon primary documents, many of which are presented as appendices, this biography reveals James' life, loves, and occupations--a man whose bloodline flowed in the veins of James Dunwoody Bulloch, Irvine Stephens Bulloch, Theodore Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

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This carefully researched and documented biography details the antebellum life of the iconic Bulloch Hall's namesake. Historians and researchers will appreciate this volume as a prequel to Huddleston's landmark three volume series of Bulloch-Roosevelt family letters (with Gwendolyn I. Koehler). James Stephens Bulloch was an inspiration to his family, peers, and community. His progeny include Civil War naval heroes, a First Lady, and a President of the United States. They all inherited his daring willingness to risk great failure with expectations of high achievement. Walter E. Wilson, Captain, USN (ret.) Author of Civil War Scoundrels and the Texas Cotton Trade; The Bulloch Belles; and Co-author of James D. Bulloch; Secret Agent and Mastermind of the Confederate Navy

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- Connie M. Huddleston loved history and dreamed of writing a book even as a child. However, she got sidetracked. She became an Army wife, a mother, an elementary school teacher, an archaeologist, and an historic preservation consultant, before publishing her first book! In February 2019, she published her fourteenth and fifteenth volumes, all dealing with her first love, our nation's past. Seven are fiction, five for children and two for YA/Adult, all under the name C.M. Huddleston. Her other works are histories for adults on a variety of subjects including four about President Theodore Roosevelt's maternal family. - Now a full-time author, Connie resides in a log cabin near Crab Orchard, Kentucky, with her husband and their Australian Shepherd Katie. They all enjoy the quiet of rural Kentucky.

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