Commands.
Commanding Central Division of Kentucky, Department No. 2, September 18, 1861.
Commanding division at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and subsequently at Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
Commanding corps composed of the division of Major General A. P. Stewart, the brigades of Brigadier Generals B. R. Johnson, John C. Brown. W. B. Bate, H. D. Clayton, and the division of Brigadier General William Preston, consisting of the brigades of Brigadier Generals Gracie and Kelly, Colonel Trigg, and three battalions of artillery.
Commanding Department of East Tennessee, July 20, 1863, to April 12, 1864.
Commanding District of West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department, August 4, 1864.
Commanding District of Arkansas and West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department, April 19, 1865.

Buckner, Simon Bolivar, born in Kentucky, appointed from Kentucky cadet United States Military Academy, July 1, 1840; graduated eleventh in a class of twenty-five.
Brevet second lieutenant, Second Infantry, July 1, 1844.
Second lieutenant, Sixth Infantry, May 9, 1846.
Regimental quartermaster, from August 8 to December 17, 1847.
First lieutenant, December 31, 1851.
Captain, commissary of subsistence, November 3, 1852.
Brevet first lieutenant, August 20, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battles of Contreras and Churubusco, Mexico, and
Captain, September 8, 1847, for gallant and meritorious conduct at the battle of Molino del Rey, Mexico.
Resigned March 26, 1855.