Download or read book Simon Bolivar Buckner written by Arndt Stickles and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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