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RECOLLECTIONS OF A CONFEDERATE GENERAL BY JUBAL DE BROOKE
Liverpool, England, December, 1863.
The next day I tracked down the one person in Liverpool who might be able to help − James Dunwoody Bulloch, chief Confederate agent in Europe.
I’d meant to approach him on his doorstep, but lost my nerve; then again at the end of Wellington Street and at various points after that. The reason for my hesitation was that I didn’t quite know how much to reveal, or whether to trust him at all.
I was accustomed to the loneliness of command, but now found myself locked in a peculiar type of solitude. Though I longed to share my dilemma with the people I’d come to know and trust, this wasn’t possible because any or all may be implicated – knowingly or not. My isolation had been compounded by quitt
