James Harvey Blood (December 29, 1833 – December 29, 1885) was a Commander of the

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in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was promoted from lieutenant colonel to colonel, and he was elected city auditor of St. Louis. He was the second husband of Victoria Woodhull, the 19th-century suffragist and activist who was the first woman to run as a candidate for president of the United States.Clarice Stasz ''The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Death, Glamour and Tragedy'' Page 55 - 2000 "A key figure herein was Colonel James Blood, a free-love advocate who was for a time their manager and Victoria's lover...Always the loyal family member, she moved in not only her children, Tennessee, and Colonel Blood, but her parents..."

Marriage to Victoria Woodhull

In April 1864, Victoria Claflin Woodhull was billing herself as a "spiritualistic physician" in St. Louis, Missouri. In the first session with Blood, she predicted their marriage, and he promptly proposed even though he was still married to his first wife, Mary Ann Clapp Harrington. Woodhull also was married at the time, and once both divorces were complete, the couple left St. Louis in 1865, moving through Midwestern cities before reaching New York City in 1867. Woodhull, in denouncing the crusades that had provided her with national attention, abandoned Blood in 1876 to try to regain her respectability. His only public response was "The grandest woman in the world went back on me." They divorced later that year.

Later life

Blood later married his third wife, Isabell Morrill Fogg, after divorcing Woodhull in 1876. He died in Akanten, Gold Coast, Africa while on a gold mining expedition, where he had struck gold. He died on his 52nd birthday.

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Colonel Blood & The Fogg Women
Victoria-Woodhull Website 1833 births 1885 deaths People from Dudley, Massachusetts Politicians from St. Louis Union Army colonels People of Missouri in the American Civil War 19th-century American politicians American expatriates in Gold Coast Colony Military personnel from Massachusetts {{Missouri-politician-stub