Unknown County IL Archives Biographies.....Buford, Napoleon Bonaparte 1807 - 1883
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Author: Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary

BUFORD, Napoleon Bonaparte, soldier, was born in Woodford county, Ky., Jan. 
13, 1807. He was graduated from West Point in 1827, studied law at Harvard by 
permission of the government, was assistant professor of natural and 
experimental philosophy at West Point, 1834-35, and resigned from the army in 
1835. He was employed by the state of Kentucky as civil engineer; engaged in 
the iron business, and became a banker and railroad president in Illinois. He 
entered the Union army in 1861 as colonel of the 27th Illinois volunteers; was 
present at the engagement at Belmont, Mo., Nov. 7, 1861; occupied Columbus, 
Ky., in March, 1862; took Union city, was in command of the garrison at Island 
10 after that fort was captured, and was present at Fort Pillow, April, 1862. 
April 15, 1862, he was promoted brigadier-general, was present at the siege of 
Corinth, September, 1862; the battle of Corinth, October 3 and 4, 1862; the 
siege of Vicksburg, 1863; was stationed in command at Cairo, Ill., from March 
to September, 1863, and from Sept. 12, 1863 to March 9, 1865, at Helena, Ark. 
He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, March 13, 1865, and was mustered 
out of the volunteer service the following August. He served as special U. S. 
Indian commissioner in 1868, having been appointed in 1867 by the government 
to inspect the Union Pacific railroad, and served until the road was completed 
in 1869. He died March 28, 1883.

Additional Comments:
Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans.
Vol. I-X. Rossiter Johnson, editor. Boston MA: The Biographical Society. 1904.

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