Skip to main content

Wrong Ship, Wrong Side

November 2023
1min read

Mr. Geoffrey C. Ward has misplaced Eleanor Roosevelt’s great-uncle, Irvine Bulloch (“The Wonderful Husband,” September/October). Bulloch served with the Confederate cruiser Alabama , not the Union warship Kearsarge , as stated in the article. He was aboard the Alabama when that ship was sunk by the Kearsarge off the French coast on June 19, 1864.

We hope you enjoy our work.

Please support this 72-year tradition of trusted historical writing and the volunteers that sustain it with a donation to American Heritage.

Donate