Simon Bolivar Buckner : papers, 1847-1896.

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Simon Bolivar Buckner : papers, 1847-1896.

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These papers include letters to Mary J. Kingsbury (Mrs. Simon B. Buckner) written during his service in the Mexican War, describing Mexican scenery and military activities; a thirty page letter to his wife describing his trip from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Atkinson along the Santa Fe Trail; letters discussing the Civil War and his postwar politics; an 18 September 1861 broadside issued by Buckner to "The People of Kentucky" stating that Confederate forces have entered Kentucky to protect the state from Federal occupation and despotism, and to enforce Kentucky's neutrality; and an indictment for treason, 1861, issued by the U.S. Circuit Court at Louisville, and accompanied by warrants, 1862, 1865, for Buckner's arrest.

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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...

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