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1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Buckner, Simon Bolivar

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BUCKNER, SIMON BOLIVAR (1823–1914), American soldier and political leader (see 4.732), died in Munfordville, Ky., Jan. 8 1914. He was the last surviving major-general of the Confederacy and the then oldest living graduate of West Point.