[grapeape]

I toasted John Buford tonight! His birthday is on March 4th. It is a good idea to toast him then also.

[Im Your Huckleberry]

I'm waiting for July 4th, when I can toast my country's Independence Day, and the anniversary of the fall of Vicksburg when U.S. Grant accepted the surrender of the city and his army marched in to take possession of the city, taking some 30,000 Confederate prisoners on top of it.

[EllaMinnow]

From one Buford fan to another, I think you'll like this site:


http://www.bufordsboys.com/

[carlo3b]

I toasted John Buford tonight!

"He [Buford] despised the false flourish and noisy parade of the charlatans of the service and avoided, too much, perhaps, the proper praise due to his glorious actions and sought to depreciate, prompted by his inherent modesty, the contemporary glorification which less worthy men coveted. For this reason he was not known to the newspaper world as were many others who will sink into insignificance while the name of Buford will occupy a bright page in the history of his country."
Wesley Merritt, Rock Island Daily Union, July 11, 1895