Simon Bolivar Buckner

Name BUCKNER, Simon Bolivar
Born April 1 1823, Hart Cty KY
Died January 8 1914, Munfordville KY
Pre-War Profession Graduated West Point 1844, Mexican War, resigned 1855, businessman, commander of Kentucky Sate Guard..
War Service 1861 refused commission in Union army, September 1861 Brig. Gen., Fort Donelson (s), exchanged after 6 months, August 1862 Maj. Gen., commanded 3rd Divn at Perryville, coastal defences in the Gulf, command of the Dept of East Tenne ssee, commanded a Corps at Chickamauga, September 1864 Lt. Gen. in Trans-Mississippi as Kirby Smith's chief of staff.
Post War Career Newspaper editor, governor of Kentucky, Vice-presidential nominee 1896.
Notes Last survivor of the top 3 grades of the Confederate army.
Further reading
Stickles, Arndt Mathis Simon Bolivar Buckner: borderland knight Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press 1940