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Napoleon Bonaparte Buford 1807 to 1883 |
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Napoleon Bonaparte, son of John and Nancy Hickman Buford, married, first, Sara Childs, of Cassanovia, New York. They had one son, Temple, born in 1883. Napoleon Buford married, for second wife, Mrs. Mary Anne Pierce, born Greenwood. Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, was a cadet at United States Military Academy, July 1, 1823; graduated in 1827 (sixth out of thirty-eighth); brevet second lieutenant, and second lieutenant, July 27, 1827; studied law at Harvard by permission of the War Department; was assistant professor of natural and experimental philosophy at the United States Military Academy, 1834-1835; resigned, 1835; resident engineer of the Licking River, Kentucky, Improving Company; iron and in Peoria, Illinois, 1857; president of the Rock Island and Peoria Railroad; colonel twenty-seventh Illinois infantry, August 10, 1861; Battle of Belmont, Kentucky, November 7, 1871; brigadier-general of volunteers, April 10, 1862; in command at Columbus, Kentucky, and Island No. 10, 1862; expedition to Fort Pillow, 1862; major-general of volunteers, November 29, 1862, to March 4, 1863; battle of Corinth, 1862; Vicksburg, 1863; command of Cairo, March to September, 1863; command Helena, Arkansas, September, 1863, to March, 1865; brevet major-general volunteers, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious conduct during the war; mustered out of service August 24, 1865; government of Union Pacific Railroad, 1867-1869; commissioner of Indian affairs 1868. General Buford died March 28, 1883. Text quoted from: History and Genealogy of the Buford Family In America With Records of a Number of Allied Families |