General Simon Bolivar Buckner

ID: 1677
This file appears in: Civil War Occupations
General Simon Bolivar Buckner

General Buckner and his Confederate troops captured Bowling Green on September 18, 1861. They Confederate force remained there until February 1862. Courtesy of the University of Kentucky.

This file appears in: Civil War Occupations

By McKenzie Martin
Historical Marker #1024 in Warren County discusses the occupation of Bowling Green by Union and Confederate forces during the Civil War. Although Kentucky officially adopted a position of neutrality at the beginning of the conflict, the policy…