[iowamark]

"Sir: Yours of this date proposing Armistice, and appointment of Commissioners, to settle terms of Capitulation is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.

I propose to move immediately upon your works.

I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant.
U.S. Grant
Brigadier General, Commanding""

[Verginius Rufus]

General Buckner was later Governor of Kentucky and lived until 1914. His son, Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., was a US Army general in WWII and was killed in the closing days of the battle of Okinawa in June 1945.

I have found online a photo of Buckner, Jr., with Lemuel Shepherd, Jr., taken during the battle of Okinawa. I have a photo of Lemuel Shepherd in 1954, when he was Commandant of the US Marine Corps, with my father. So there are four degrees of separation between myself and General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Sr.