JAMES D. BULLOCH’S BOOK Cover Fly leaf and Inscriptions Title page Profile drawing of a vessel	This book by James Peake, The Rudiments of Ship Building, was published in London in 1859. It was used by Captain James D. Bulloch while he was in Great Britain securing vessels for the navy of the Confederate States of America.      Bullock signed the flyleaf as follows: “Bulloch/ Jul 1862.” and “Presented to / Arthur French/ by his friend  / James D. Bulloch / Liverpool / 17th Dec 1866.”      Arthur French added the following notation, “This is the Book used / by Com[mande]r J. D. Bulloch while / superintending th[e] / building of the ‘290’ ship / [the] ‘Alabama’ & other cruisers / Arthur L. Frenc[h]  / Nov[embe]r 1869”      The original volume is in the Rosanna          Blake Library, Marshall University.
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