Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner
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A native of Munfordville, Kentucky, Simon Bolivar Buckner was a Confederate general who later became governor of Kentucky. At the Battle of Perryville, Buckner commanded a division in the Confederate Army of the Mississippi. Many of his troops fought across a farm owned by Henry P. Bottom. Courtesy the Library of Congress.
This file appears in: Perryville's Henry P. Bottom
Perryville's Henry P. Bottom
Historical Marker #192 in Boyle County commemorates a Perryville resident who made great sacrifices during the Civil War.
Henry Bottom was a farmer and justice of the peace whose home was caught in…