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See also:BUCKNER, See also:SIMON See also:BOLIVAR (1823– ) , See also:American soldier and See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born in See also:Hart See also:county, See also:Kentucky, on the 1st of See also:April 1823. He graduated at See also:West Point in 1844, and was assistant See also:professor of See also:geography, See also:history and See also:ethics there in 1845–1846. He fought in several battles of the Mexican See also:War, received the See also:brevet of first See also:lieutenant for gallantry at Churubusco, where he was wounded, and later, after the storming of Chapultepec, received the brevet of See also:captain. In 1848–1850 he was assistant instructor of See also:infantry See also:tactics at West Point. During the succeeding five years he was in the recruiting service, on frontier See also:duty, and finally in the subsistence See also:department. He resigned from the See also:army in See also:March 1855. During the futile See also:attempt of See also:Governor Beriah Magoffin to maintain Kentucky in a position of See also:neutrality, he was See also:commander of the See also:state
guard; but in See also:September 1861, after the entry of See also:Union forces into the state, he openly espoused the Confederate cause and was commissioned brigadier-See also:general, later becoming lieutenant-general. He was third in command of Fort See also:Donelson at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of General See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant's attack (See also:February 1862), and it See also:fell to him, after the See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
escape of Generals See also:Floyd and See also:Pillow, to surrender the See also:post with its large See also:garrison and valuable supplies. General Buckner was exchanged in See also:August of the same See also:year, and subsequently served under General See also:Bragg in the invasion of Kentucky and the See also:campaign of Chickamauga. He was governor of Kentucky in 1887-1891, was a member of the Kentucky constitutional See also:convention of 1890, and in 1896 was the See also:candidate of the See also:National or " See also:Gold " Democrats for See also:vice-See also:president of the See also:United States.
End of Article: BUCKNER, SIMON BOLIVAR (1823– )
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