Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — Why Did He Do It? [ARTICLE]

Why Did He Do It?

A Southern magazine, by way ot illustrating the transitoriness of fame, says that less than twenty years after the close of the Civil War the following conversation took place at a Chicago railway station, where a soldierly passenger had just stepped from a train. “Who is that fine-looking man?" said a prominent citizen of the city to an ex-Confederate. “That is General Buckner,” was the reply. “Who is General Buckner?” “General Buckner of the Con. federate army, you know, who surrendered Fort Donelson. ” The prominent citizen seemed to be collecting his thoughts. “Oh,” he said, “he surrendered Fort Donelson, did he? What did he do that for?