Simon Bolivar Buckner collection, 1861-1913.

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Simon Bolivar Buckner collection, 1861-1913.

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This collection contains the business, professional, and personal materials of Simon Bolivar Buckner, Confederate general and former governor of Kentucky. Business materials reflect Buckner's involvement with the Globe Mutual Life Insurance Company. Items include correspondence to Buckner from John Hardenburgh, Gov. Henry Allen of Louisiana, Edmund Kirby-Smith, A.E. Burnside, R.L. Gibson, E.D. Blake, James W. Abert, and Pierre De Pew, among others. Early letters concern Buckner's involvement in the Civil War while later correspondence relates his business dealings and some of his work as governor of Kentucky. Of particular interest is a letter from A.R. Macdonald who writes about a secret mission taken on by Congressman Casey of Kentucky during the Civil War. Casey delivered a letter from Lincoln to Gen. Kirby-Smith offering a large sum of money to end the burning of cotton in the trans-Mississippi region. Miscellaneous items include a couple of Buckner's poems and a will written by him before embarking on a military mission during the Civil War. Newspaper clippings concern Buckner's meeting with Jefferson Davis and other Confederate generals who had lost confidence in Gen. Braxton Bragg's leadership.

1 cubic ft.

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7542280

Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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Globe Mutual Insurance Company.

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Buckner, Simon Bolivar, 1823-1914

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Simon Bolivar Buckner, governor of Kentucky during 1887-91, was born near Munfordville, Kentucky, in 1823, to Aytell Hartswell and Elizabeth Ann Buckner. He entered West Point in 1840 and saw active duty in the Mexican War after graduation. He later became head of Kentucky's state militia, then joined the Confederate Army as brigadier general at the start of the Civil War. After the war, Buckner was a journalist and businessman in New Orleans until he was allowed to return to Kentucky in 1868. I...

Kingsbury family.

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