Son of Hamilton Buffington & Elizabeth Jane Hinn.
Brother of Thomas A. Buffington Buffington was a prisoner of the Confederacy during the Civil War. His successful escape is recounted in Dr. Jesse Hawes' 1888 book, Cahaba Captive Boys in Blue. He quotes Buffington as writing, "And when the last charge had been made, the last position taken, and the air was ringing with the expiring groans of the moribund Confederacy, it was pleasant to think, after all our years of fighting and suffering, that cause for which we had fought and suffered, and for which thousands had died, had at last triumphed- the Union had been preserved, and the old flag once again floated over a reunited country, from which the dark blot of human slavery had been washed with the blood of unnumbered thousands of heroes."
Son of Hamilton Buffington & Elizabeth Jane Hinn.
Brother of Thomas A. Buffington Buffington was a prisoner of the Confederacy during the Civil War. His successful escape is recounted in Dr. Jesse Hawes' 1888 book, Cahaba Captive Boys in Blue. He quotes Buffington as writing, "And when the last charge had been made, the last position taken, and the air was ringing with the expiring groans of the moribund Confederacy, it was pleasant to think, after all our years of fighting and suffering, that cause for which we had fought and suffered, and for which thousands had died, had at last triumphed- the Union had been preserved, and the old flag once again floated over a reunited country, from which the dark blot of human slavery had been washed with the blood of unnumbered thousands of heroes."
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Co B, 47 Ill Inf
