Bullock, a native of South Carolina, came to Alabama shortly after graduating from Harvard College.
[1] He practiced law in the same firm with James L. Pugh and Jefferson Buford.
He delivered an address, A Plea for Home Education in the South, to the East Alabama Female College in July 1852 and another, True and False Civilization.
An Oration Before the Erosophic and Philomathic Societies of the University of Alabama, in 1858.
When the Civil War began, Bullock resigned his seat and was commissioned as a colonel with the 18th Alabama Infantry Regiment.