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the United States from Boston to Norfolk, was there transferred to the Potomac, with which he served on the Brazil station. On this frigate, and the sloop Decatur he served until 1842, when he obtained transfer to the battleship Delaware, and shared the honors of her famous cruise in the Mediterranean. During part of 1844-45 he attended the naval school at Philadelphia, passing second in his class, and then returned to active service, being on duty on the Pacific coast during the Mexican war, and undergoing great perils in the wreck of the Shark off the mouth of the Columbia river, and in 1849 beginning a two years service in the coast survey. He succeeded Admiral (then lieutenant) D. D. Porter in command of the Georgia, the first subsidized mail steamer to California, and subsequently commanded various vessels in the gulf mail service. When the Georgia convention passed the ordinance of secession, a resolution was adopted declaring that the allegiance of those of its citizens in the army and navy was due to the State, and calling upon them to resign their Federal commissions. Lieutenant Bulloch at once obeyed this summons, and was commissioned commander, C. S. N. On account of his long and varied experience in the navy, having served on every class of war vessel, as well as having superintended the construction of two mail ships, he was selected by the Confederate government to perform duties of great importance as naval agent in England. He accepted this duty on condition that he should command the first cruiser fitted out in England, but he proved to be of such value to the government, not only in the providing of the proper vessels, but in aiding the diplomatic negotiations that he sacrificed his inclinations at the repeated requests of the secretary of the navy. He remained at his post of duty during the war, and subsequently continued to reside at Liverpool. He was an accomplished scholar and thoroughly a master of maritime and international law. His