biography
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Buckner, Simon Bolivar
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1823–1914)
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| biography:
| Confederate soldier, born near Munfordville, Kentucky, USA. He trained at West Point (1844) and saw extensive action during the Mexican War, entering Confederate service as a brigadier-general in September 1861. In February 1862, after his two senior officers escaped to safety, he surrendered Fort Donelson, Kentucky to General Grant after receiving Grant's famous ‘unconditional surrender’ message. Exchanged later in 1862, Buckner commanded a wing of Bragg's army at Chickamauga. After the war he edited a Louisville newspaper and served as Democratic governor of Kentucky (1887–92). |
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