Jefferson-Tallapoosa County AlArchives Biographies.....Bulger, William D. March 1, 1844 - 
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Author: “Memorial Record of Alabama,” Volume 2, published by Brant & Fuller in Madison, WI (1893), page 249

Col. W. D. Bulger, one of the best known attorneys in Alabama and a prominent 
member of the Birmingham bar, is a native of Tallapoosa county, Ala., where he 
was born March 1, 1844, and where he secured his primary education.  He then 
went to Dadeville, Ala., where he worked for five years in a printing office 
and then went to Marrysville, Tenn., where he attended school, until the spring 
of 1861, when he entered the Confederate service, enlisting in a company 
organized by Capt. Thrasher, while was assigned to the Thirty-eighth Tennessee 
infantry, and on the reorganization of that regiment, in the summer of the same 
year, private Bulger, was made commissary, and served in that capacity for 
about a year.  He then resigned and enlisted as a private soldier, in the Forty-
seventh Alabama regiment, which was organized by his father, M. J. Bulger, who 
soon became its colonel.  He served in this regiment until the battle of 
Chickamauga, where he was wounded, and after partially recovering, he was 
assigned to detailed duty at Mobile, Ala. And commissioned lieutenant-colonel 
of the Third Alabama reserves, which rank he held at the close of the war.  He 
was in the battles of Cedar Run, Second Manassas, Chantilly Farm, 
Fredericksburg, Sharpsburg or Antietan, Gettysbufg and Chickamauga.   He was 
wounded in the right hop at Sharpsburg, and in the knee at Chickamauga.  At the 
close of the war, Col. Bulger returned to this native county, and located at 
Dadeville, where he at once commenced the study of law, and in March, 1866, was 
admitted to the bar.  He at once opened an office in Dadeville, and soon built 
up a lucrative practice remaining there until 1888, when he removed to 
Birmingham, Ala., where he now resides, and has a large practice.  He was 
elected to represent Tallapoosa county in the lower house in 1870, and served 
one term.  Col. Bulger was married in December, 1866, to Miss Amanda Crabb, 
daughter of James B. Crabb, of McConough, Ga., and to this union were born ten 
children, of whom six now survive.  Col. Bulger’s father is M. J. Bulger, who 
is a native of South Carolina, born in Richland district, that state.  He came 
to Alabama about 1820, locating in Tallapoosa county, where he now resides.  He 
has served repeatedly in both houses of the Alabama legislature, and early in 
1862, organized the Forty-seventh Alabama regiment, of which he was afterward 
made colonel, and served all through the war, receiving three wounds, while in 
service.  He married Elizabeth M. Bozeman, a native of Alabama and to them were 
born four children, two of whom now survive, viz.:  Col. W. D. Bulger of 
Birmingham, and Thomas L. Bulger of Tallapoosa county, Ala.

Additional Comments:
William D. Bulger was not in the 1900 census.  His widow, Amanada was listed as 
head of household, born in Georgia in May 1847.  Three daughters also lived 
with Amanda:  Hennie A, b. July 1870, Fannie E., b. Oct. 1875, and Ruby, b. 
December 1886.  

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