James Stephens Bulloch: Aristocratic Southern Gentleman (ITP 2020)
A fourth generation American, Major James S. Bulloch descended from Georgia’s first President and two Revolutionary War Patriots. His story is one of varied interests and occupations, two marriages, and a life typical of an antebellum southern aristocrat.
Based almost entirely upon primary documents, many of which are presented as appendices, this biography reveals James Bulloch’s life, loves, and occupations while also relating one side of President Theodore Roosevelt’s family.
Mittie & Thee: An 1853
Roosevelt Romance
(Friends of Bulloch 2015)
North met South—an enduring love affair began—the birth of a President resulted. This 1853 story, told through one year of courtship letters between New York City’s Theodore Roosevelt (Senior) and Miss Mittie Bulloch of Georgia, echoes through time. Her heritage is one of patriotism, education, and Southern social standing. He is the fifth son of a wealthy New York City businessman of Dutch heritage. Their courtship, conducted mostly through letters, provides the reader with an intimate peek into their personal love story.
Transcribed and presented just as written, these love letters tell the story not only of two young lovers but of the social mores of 1853. Huddleston and Koehler allow the letters to stand on their own, presenting only the necessary background to the story, a glimpse of antebellum life, and explanations of persons and events as needed.
This is the first in a series of three books. The Bulloch Letters series publishes letters from the Bulloch and Roosevelt families written between 1853 and 1865.
Between the Wedding & the War: The Bulloch/Roosevelt Letters 1854-1860
(Friends of Bulloch 2016)
Between the Wedding and the War continues the true saga of two families, the northern Roosevelts and the southern Bullochs.
For seven years letters flowed between the Bulloch and Roosevelt families capturing a poignant time of upheaval foreshadowed by war. The letters tell of births, deaths, love, religion, and business and follow Martha Bulloch and two of her remaining unwed children North.
While stories of family journeys convey the spirit of America’s expansion and growth, stories about the home front reveal two different cultures. In the midst of it all, a president is born.
Divided Only by
Distance & Allegiance:
The Bulloch/Roosevelt Letters 1861-1864
(Friends of Bulloch/2017)
The year 1861 found the Bulloch and Roosevelt families divided by allegiance. Now living in the North, the Bulloch women supported their Southern roots, while their northern husbands stayed true to the Union.
The War created additional hardships, limiting the family’s correspondence, travel, and finances. With two sons fighting for the South and one dying back home in Georgia, the family letters tell of the ladies’ struggles to aid and comfort those they loved, all amidst a background of the Civil War.
This final volume in the Bulloch Letters series published the letters written by the Bulloch and Roosevelt families written between 1861 and 1865.
Seldom Told Stories
(ITP 2018)
James Stephens Bulloch moved his family to Roswell, Georgia, in the late 1830s. James, his wife Martha, and three of their children owned and enslaved a number of individuals, as did many white and some “colored” families in the South. This book presents the life story, as it can be documented, of four of these men and women. Some twenty-seven others are named herein; however, their story is currently lost to the ages, never documented, and most likely forgotten.
Marshall County, Kentucky
(Arcadia/2006 with Carol Aldridge and Virginia Smith)
This 2006 pictorial history of Marshall County, Kentucky, features over 180 photographs. Its text describes the county’s settlement in the late 1700s while illustrating its history through many privately- held photographs.
Georgia’s Civilian Conservation Corps
(Arcadia 2009)
Featuring 180 photographs, maps, and illustrations, this volume tells the story of the work carried out in Georgia by the CCC.
President Franklin Roosevelt’s own vision brought about the CCC in the midst of the Great Depression as part of his New Deal programs. Employing more than 2.5 million young men with many of them serving for more than one term, the CCC created state and federal parks, planted trees, built trails, and even participated in archaeological projects. This book captures their spirit, their sense of adventure, and points out their contributions to Georgia’s landscape.
Kentucky’s Civilian Conservation Corps
(The History Press/2009)
Like Connie’s Georgia volume on the Civilian Conservation Corps, this book features many unpublished photographs obtained from the National Archives, College Park, Maryland.
From 1933 until the beginning of WWII, the CCC employed over 2.5 million across our country including nearly 90,000 enrolled in Kentucky. This book chronicles their stories in words and photographs, many never before published. It shows makeshift camps, the creation of new state and federal parks, and the handiwork of Kentucky’s “forest army.”