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  Simon Bolivar Buckner Biography
Buckner resigned on July 20th and two months later was named a Confederate brigadier general, neutrality having come to an end.
Exchanged on August 27, 1862, Buckner was promoted to major general and led his division at Perryville before being ordered to take command along the Gulf coast.
During the buildup prior to the battle of Chickamauga Buckner reinforced Bragg and his command became a corps for the battle.
www.civilwarhome.com /bucknerbio.htm   (619 words)

  
  P-38 Lightning Online: Aleutian Islands
General Buckner recognized the threat posed by the Japanese, and realized that it was only a matter of time before they target their aggression towards the American forces in the Pacific.
Buckner's prediction of attacks was correct, but the Aleutian Islands were never the main focus of an enemy invasion.
Buckner was due to receive additional resources because Washington was realizing the possible problems that the Japanese would be able to pose to the mainland.
p-38online.com /alaska.html   (845 words)

  
  SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER, CSA
Simon Bolivar Buckner was born on April 1, 1823, in Hart County, Kentucky.
Escaping to the South to avoid arrest for being a traitor, Buckner was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate army on September 14, 1861.
Buckner died at his home near Munfordville, Kentucky on January 8, 1914; the last survivor of the top three ranks in the Confederate military.
www.historycentral.com /bio/CWcGENS/CSABuckner.html   (275 words)

  
  Simon Bolivar Buckner - LoveToKnow 1911
SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER (1823-), American soldier and political leader, was born in Hart county, Kentucky, on the ist of April 1823.
He was third in command of Fort Donelson at the time of General Grant's attack (February 1862), and it fell to him, after the escape of Generals Floyd and Pillow, to surrender the post with its large garrison and valuable supplies.
General Buckner was exchanged in August of the same year, and subsequently served under General Bragg in the invasion of Kentucky and the campaign of Chickamauga.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Simon_Bolivar_Buckner   (274 words)

  
 Simon Bolivar Buckner
As inspector general of the Kentucky militia, early in the war Simon Bolivar Buckner met with George McClellan to assure him that Kentucky would remain neutral and not attack Cincinnati.
Upon his release, Buckner was promoted to Major General and joined Braxton Bragg as a division commander in the advance on Perryville.
For the rest of the Civil War Buckner was in command of the Department of East Tennessee and at the end of the war, the Trans-Mississippi Department.
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 SIMON BOLIVAR BUCKNER, CSA   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Simon Bolivar Buckner was born on April 1, 1823, in Hart County, Kentucky.
Escaping to the South to avoid arrest for being a traitor, Buckner was commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate army on September 14, 1861.
Buckner died at his home near Munfordville, Kentucky on January 8, 1914; the last survivor of the top three ranks in the Confederate military.
www.multied.com /1812/Ghent.htmlhttp://dates/bio/CWcGENS/CSABuckner.html   (275 words)

  
 Buckner, Simon Bolivar, Jr. (1886-1945)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Buckner was the son of Confederate General Simon S. Buckner Sr., who is remembered in history as the officer to whom U.S. Grant issued his first famous “unconditional surrender” demand.
Buckner spent most of World War I as a flight instructor, though he was not a member of the Army Air Corps in 1941.
Buckner later commanded the Tenth Army on Okinawa in what some of his Marine subordinates criticized as an unimaginative campaign.
pwencycl.kgbudge.com /B/u/Buckner_Simon_Bolivar_Jr.htm   (219 words)

  
 Simon Bolivar Buckner IV, genealogical information
The John-Richard-Philip-Philip-Aylett-Simon-Simon line is recounted in Stickles' biography of Simon Bolivar Buckner.
All but one of the Buckners since SBB, Jr.
Although I have a various photographs of General Buckner at various stages of his life, this one is from the Harpers Weekly, August 15, 1896.
www.thebucknerhome.com /genealogy.htm   (288 words)

  
 Sr. Simon Bolivar Buckner Biography
Buckner surrendered Fort Donelson to Ulysses S. Grant after his superiors fled.
He was later exchanged, and joined Braxton Bragg's 1862 invasion of Kentucky.
In 1887, Buckner ran for Governor of Kentucky as a Democrat and was elected.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Buckner_Simon_Bolivar_Sr.html   (142 words)

  
 Media Center
Buckner, the great-grandson of Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner, will be tracing his ancestor’s footsteps at the 2002 National Reenactment, hosted at the Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site.
Buckner also joined General Braxton Bragg in his 1862 campaign for Kentucky, which brought Buckner to the Battle of Perryville.
Jean will reenact Buckner’s brief to brigade commanders prior to the battle, and he will introduce the Buckner descendants in attendance to the audience.
www.perryville.net /mediacenter.html   (5536 words)

  
 ULYSSES S. GRANT HOMEPAGE - Simon Bolivar Buckner Interview
Buckner was a Confederate General of the civil war and later governor of his native Kentucky.
He became aquainted with Grant during the Mexican war, surrendered to him at Fort Donelson in 1862 and visited his former foe just weeks before Grant's death.
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