General Simon Bolivar Buckner
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General Buckner led Confederate forces in the capture of Bowling Green in September 1861. Courtesy of the University of Kentucky.
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Confederate State Capital
Historical Marker #67 in Warren County discusses Bowling Green's role as the state capital of Kentucky's Provisional Confederate government.
Few states were as bitterly divided as Kentucky during the Civil War. The commonwealth's…