The 61st formed in Kentucky, from parts of Hardin, Barren counties. Home of the Buckners. Simon Bolivar Buckner, graduate of West Point, captain in Mexican War, CSA general in the Civil War, governor of Kentucky, 1887-91, candidate for US Vice-President, 1896. His son S. B. Buckner, Jr., commanding general 10th US Army, killed Okinawa, 1945. Both buried Frankfort, Ky., Cemetery.