Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight
- ISBN-10
- 0807853569
- ISBN-13
- 9780807853566
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- UNC Press Books
- Author
- Arndt Stickles
Description
Trained at West Point, Buckner saw service in the Mexican War but retired to private life afterwards. With the outbreak of the Civil War, he became a general in the Confederate army. In the troublesome years following the war, he served as governor of Ken
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