The following year, he visited his son, who was stationed in Texas, and toured old Mexican–American War battlefields where he had served. In 1912, his health began to fail. He died on January 8, 1914, after a week-long bout with uremic poisoning. He was buried in Frankfort Cemetery in Frankfort, Kentucky. See also List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) Notes References Cozzens, Peter. The Shipwreck of Their Hopes: The Battles for Chattanooga. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994. . Further reading Grant, Ulysses S., Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885–86, . ; a fictionalized account of Buckner's life External links "Simon Bolivar Buckner: A Skillful and Judicious General" – Article by Civil War historian/author Bryan S. Bush |- |- 1823 births 1914 deaths Military personnel from Kentucky American Civil War prisoners of war American military personnel of the Mexican–American War Burials at Frankfort Cemetery Confederate States Army lieutenant generals Deaths from kidney failure Democratic Party governors of Kentucky Members of the Aztec Club of 1847 National Democratic Party (United States) politicians People from Hart County, Kentucky Politicians from Louisville, Kentucky People of Kentucky in the American Civil War United States Army officers United States Military Academy alumni 1896 United States vice-presidential candidates 19th-century American Episcopalians 19th-century American politicians Southern Historical Society