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2 unusual facts about Abraham Buford


Abraham Buford

Their Civil War descendants included Union Major Generals John Buford, who distinguished himself at the Battle of Gettysburg, and Napoleon Bonaparte Buford and Confederate General Abraham Buford.

Lancaster County, South Carolina

Along there in the American Revolutionary War, Colonel Abraham Buford fled from Tarleton and was overtaken a few miles south of the North Carolina state line where the Patriot forces were defeated in a controversial struggle known as the Battle of Waxhaws, also known as Bufords Massacre to locals.


Timeline of Kentucky in the American Civil War

April 14, 1864 • Brig. Gen. Abraham Buford revisits Paducah to capture "140 fine horses" reported by a Dover, Tennessee newspaper to have escaped Forrest's earlier raid.

Waxhaws

In what became called the Waxhaw massacre, a Loyalist force led by Banastre Tarleton severely defeated a force of about 350 Virginian Continentals under Abraham Buford.


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