Posted on 10/03/2012 2:20:10 PM PDT by BigReb555
Fascinating. I’d never read that before. Thanks for posting it.
I’d post the Dr. Scott part but it would make you throw up.
I was just reading Simon Bolivar Buckner: Borderland Knight, a fascinating biography of one of the most underrated generals of the Western Theater. I highly recommend it. As an interesting aside, his son, General Simon Bolivar Buckner Junior, is the highest ranking American general to be killed by enemy fire. He was killed by the last Japanese artillery barrage of the Battle of Okinawa.
He was a man of honor—respected by friend and foe alike. I believe—if the CSA had won—he would have become the second president of the Confederacy—and I believe he would have Freed the slaves!
“Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less”-—Robert E. Lee.
To my great surprise, that is actually true (I had him confused with another general and assumed the WWII general must have been a grandson). Simon Jr. was born when Simon Sr. was in his sixties.
Good point...but the war did stretch on...but still a good point.
An interesting thing about General Buckner Senior is that he was the Confederate commander at the Battle of Munfordville during the Heartland Campaign. What makes this interesting is that Buckner was from Munfordville and his forces had to attack the town in order to secure a bridge over the Green River.
Good point.
The cemetery began as an insult to Lee. When Lee chose sides, his home was seized by the Union Army. The head of the Army decided to bury the civil war dead in his front yard. It wasn’t until many years after the war and court battles that Arlington became a national monument.......
FYI LTG Timothy J. Maude, USA, was killed on 9/11 in the attack on the Pentagon.
The new Army Human Resources Center at Fort Knox is named in his honor. He and Buckner were both Lt Gen’s at the time of their deaths, but Buckner was posthumously promoted to four-star.
Did not know that LG Buckner was postumously promoted.
I believe there were 3 3 stars lost during WW2; LG McNair, killed by friendly fire, LG Andrews, killed in a plane crash, and LG Buckner.
There was a fourth three-star, Millard Harmon, who was lost in the war. Harmon was the deputy commander of the 20th Air Force, under Hap Arnold. He was a passenger on a B-24 that disappeared somewhere between Kwajalein and Hawaii on February 24, 1945.
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