An interesting aside....Simon Bolivar Buckner (the first) was an old and dear friend of Ulysses S. Grant. Indeed, he attended Grants wedding and helped him out of severe financial hardship during his "lost years" before the war. Buckner was one of three senior confederate officers in charge of Fort Donaldson when it fell to the North. The capture of this strategically located fort being Grant's first major victory of the war. While the other two generals escaped, Buckner chose to remain and surrender the fort to his friend. Unfortunately, he discovered that friendship went only so far in times of war, as Grant, in response to a note from Buckner, demanded "unconditional surrender" from his old friend. Buckner was more than a tad miffed, but complied, upon which the two old friends caught up with each others lives over the next several days. Twenty+plus years later, Buckner was an honor guard at Grant's funeral. Edit to Add: Buckner's son was the result of a late-in-life second marriage.