{"id":879,"date":"2012-11-14T13:07:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T20:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=879"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T17:47:04","slug":"bullard-robert-lee-1861-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"BULLARD, ROBERT LEE, 1861-1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Army officer. Born&#8211; January 15, 1861, Youngsboro. Parents&#8211; Daniel and Susan (Mizell) Bullard. Married&#8211; Rose Douglas Brabson (died 1921). Four children. Married&#8211; Ella Rieff Wall, 1927.\u00a0\u00a0 Education&#8211; Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, B.S.; United States Military Academy, graduated 1885; Pennsylvania Military College, D.M.S. Commissioned First Lieutenant, 1892; served on the Mexican Border, in the Spanish-American War and in the Philippines.\u00a0 Commissioned Major General, 1917.\u00a0 Commanded the First Infantry Division, World War I.\u00a0 Commanded the II Corps Area, headquartered at Governors Island, NY, 1919-25. Retired from the United States Army in 1925 at the rank of lieutenant general. Author of a number of articles in magazines, newspapers and military journals. Member and president, American Security League. Received the DSM, 1918. LL.D degree from Columbia University and from Alabama Polytechnic Institute; elected to Alabama Hall of Fame, 1968. Decorated by the Governments of France, Belgium, and Italy. Died September 11, 1947.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s who online; American National Biography online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fighting Generals. Ann Arbor, Mich.; J. W. Edwards, 1944.<\/p>\n<p>Personalities and Reminiscences of the War. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1925.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>American Soldiers Also Fought. New York; Longmans, Green, 1936.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The papers of General Robert L. Bullard are held by the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Army officer. Born&#8211; January 15, 1861, Youngsboro. Parents&#8211; Daniel and Susan (Mizell) Bullard. Married&#8211; Rose Douglas Brabson (died 1921). Four children. Married&#8211; Ella Rieff Wall, 1927.\u00a0\u00a0 Education&#8211; Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama, B.S.; United States Military Academy, graduated 1885; Pennsylvania Military College, D.M.S. Commissioned First Lieutenant, 1892; served on the Mexican Border, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6747,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/6747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}