Portal:American Civil War/Selected biography
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Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr. (April 1, 1823 – January 8, 1914) was a career U.S. Army officer and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, the officer who yielded to Ulysses S. Grant's famous demand for "unconditional surrender" at the Battle of Fort Donelson in 1862. He later served as governor of Kentucky and was an unsuccessful candidate for vice president of the United States on the National Democratic Party (or "Gold Democrats") ticket in 1896. (More...)
