William M BUCHANAN (VETERAN CSA)
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Additional BUCHANAN Surnames in CANE HILL Cemetery
BUCHANAN, Cyrus WilliamBUCHANAN, ThomasBUCHANAN, IsaacBUCHANAN (VETERAN CSA), Pleasant WBUCHANAN (VETERAN CSA), James GreefieldBUCHANAN (VETERAN CSA), William MBUCHANAN, J T RevBUCHANAN, AltaBUCHANAN, Pleasant WBUCHANAN, James GreenfieldBUCHANAN, William MBUCHANAN, Susan EmilineBUCHANAN, Kathryn Sue Additional BUCHANAN Surnames in WASHINGTON County
BUCHANAN, Alfred L RevBUCHANAN, Augustus SamuelBUCHANAN, Dovie Sue "Miss Daisy"BUCHANAN, EffieBUCHANAN, ElizabethBUCHANAN, EllenBUCHANAN, ElbertBUCHANAN, EstellaBUCHANAN, GreenfieldBUCHANAN, H CBUCHANAN, HazelBUCHANAN, Henry ThorntonBUCHANAN, Homer L.BUCHANAN, Infant SonBUCHANAN, J ABUCHANAN, James RevBUCHANAN, Janet Maude "Janie"BUCHANAN, Jessie LBUCHANAN, John T.BUCHANAN, John RevBUCHANAN, John HBUCHANAN, Joseph LawtonBUCHANAN, L JBUCHANAN, LeoBUCHANAN, Lester GBUCHANAN, LizzieBUCHANAN, Louis P.BUCHANAN, MaurineBUCHANAN, MayselBUCHANAN, Mary LBUCHANAN, MattieBUCHANAN, Marcus RedfieldBUCHANAN, Mary EBUCHANAN, Nellie RuthBUCHANAN, Nina AtorBUCHANAN, R FultonBUCHANAN, Rachel JBUCHANAN, RuthBUCHANAN, RubyBUCHANAN, Samuel AllenBUCHANAN, Samuel NBUCHANAN, SarahBUCHANAN, Samuel LawtonBUCHANAN, SophroniaBUCHANAN, Thomas GBUCHANAN, Verna ElizabethBUCHANAN, Velma RBUCHANAN, Viola M
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Submitted: 9/1/10 • Approved: 10/30/22 • Last Updated: 11/2/22 • R370172-G370170-S3
SECOND LIEUTENANT
Company B 34 Regiment Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
June 5, 1832 - February 21, 1864
*Obituary
1911 Arkansas Confederate Census
BUCHANAN, William M., died February 21, 1864, was born June 5, 1832 the son of Isaac Buchanan, born at Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, who lived at Cane Hill, Arkansas. He was the son of Thomas Buchanan and his wife Jennie Neely of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Maiden name of subjects mother was Naomi Crawford, daughter of John Crawford and his wife, who lived at Cave Creek, near Fayetteville, Tennessee. The Buchanans came from Scotland to Virginia. Later some went to Kentucky and Tennessee. They were honorable and upright people – many were preachers of the gospel, many of them were mathematicians. The Crawford’s were Virginians. John Crawford moved to Lincoln County, Tennessee. Subject received early education at cane Hill, college at Cumberland University. He was killed with Captain P.W. Buchanan on Cane Hill while recruiting. He was a Democrat and Cumberland Presbyterian. He married Nannie Bean at Cane Hill at the home of her uncle Mark Bean. She was the daughter of Richard Henderson and Rebeckah Smith Bean. Their children were Mrs. Anna Plummer of Springdale, Arkansas and Willie Buchanan of Goodpasture.
Sons of Naomi and Isaac Buchanan
Brothers purportedly hung by Union soldiers
"Together they lived, Together they died, Together they live in Christ"
*CC Note: Additional information a viewer. (10/30/2022)
Pleasant, James, and William were not hanged but shot by a federal patrol after stealing the horse of a Federal officer the night before. The three were riding together with three other men to a rendezvous with other Partisan Rangers when they stopped to rest their horses and themselves and were caught off guard by the patrol. The three brothers were killed and the other three men escaped. Montgomery Wilson, who was a student of and then a private who served with Pleasant witnessed the attack and left a detailed description. The three were mutilated after their death and their bodies were dumped in their mothers yard.
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