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Benjamin F. Buckner (Clark County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier.)

b. 1836 d. 1901-05-06

Clark County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Illinois native. Son of Aylett Hawes Buckner and Charlotte F. Buckner. Married to Helen B. Martin Buckner in Clark County, Kentucky, on March 5, 1863. Student in Clark County in 1850. Household owned three enslaved persons in Clark County in 1850. Attorney in Clark County in 1860. Household owned three enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860. Served in the 20th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as major from January 6, 1862, to April 17, 1863. Resigned from U.S. military service on April 17, 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 47B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 876.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, Winchester, p. 347A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Clark County Marriages, Film 001943687.

"Judge Buckner," The Daily Leader (Lexington, KY), May 6, 1901, p. 1.

Patrick A. Lewis, "'All Men of Decency Ought to Quit the Army': Benjamin F. Buckner, Manhood, and Proslavery Unionism in Kentucky," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society vol. 107, no 4 (Autumn 2009): pp. 513-549.

"Benjamin F. Buckner (1836-1901)," Find A Grave, Memorial 49467025, accessed May 22, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49467025.

Citation

Buckner, Benjamin F.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32208040 (November 12, 2026).

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