"One, the younger man, served on the "Alabama" as the youngest officer aboard her. He was captain of one of her broadside 32-pounders in her final fight, and when at the very end the "Alabama" was sinking and the "Kearsarge" passed under her stern and came up along the side that had not been engaged hitherto, my uncle, Irvine Bulloch, shifted his gun from one side to the other and fired the two last shots fired from the "Alabama". James Dunwoody Bulloch was an admiral in the Confederate service."