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Tag Archives: CSA General Simon Buckner
Grant, Buckner and the Pillow Flight
Gideon Pillow was first and foremost a “political” general of massive pretensions. The Stuffed Pillow Gideon Pillow (1806-78) was born and raised to a prosperous and well-connected Tennessee family. He attended the University of Nashville, became an attorney, and went … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, James K. Polk, Nifty History People, Ulysses S. Grant
Tagged American Civil War, American history, Civil War, Civil War history, Confederate General John Floyd, CSA General Gideon Pillow, CSA General Simon Buckner, Feather Schwartz Foster, Fort Donelson TN, Fort Henry, General Gideon Pillow, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, General Ulysses S. Grant, General Winfield Scott, General Zachary Taylor, history, President James K. Polk, Presidential history, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Ulysses S. Grant, US history
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General Grant’s No-Exchange Order
Hard to Believe, But… After millenniums of savage butchery, more “civilized” armies faced each other on the most favorable empty grounds they could find and they became battlefields, far from villages and towns and private citizens. If a belligerent was … Continue reading
Posted in Abraham Lincoln, American Civil War, Nifty History People, Ulysses S. Grant
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Civil War, Civil War history, Civil War prisoners of war, CSA General Simon Buckner, Feather Schwartz Foster, Ft. Pillow, General Cornwallis, General Grant, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, General Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington at Yorktown, history, Presidential history, Simon Bolivar Buckner, The battle of Milikens Bend, The battle of Port Hudson, The Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Grant at Vicksburg, US Civil War, US history
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