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Abraham Buford
Brigadier General Abraham Buford
Born	(1820-01-18)January 18, 1820 Woodford County, Kentucky
Died	June 9, 1884(1884-06-09) (aged 64) Danville, Indiana
Place of burial	Lexington Cemetery Lexington, Kentucky
Allegiance	United States of America Confederate States of America
Service/branch	United States Army Confederate States Army
Years of service	1841–1854 (USA) 1862–1865 (CSA)
Rank	Captain (USA) Brigadier General (CSA)
Commands held	Buford's Cavalry Brigade Buford's Div., Forrest's Cavalry Corps
Battles/wars	Mexican–American War Battle of Buena Vista American Civil War Battle of Stones River Battle of Champion Hill Battle of Brice's Crossroads Third Battle of Murfreesboro Hood's Retreat Richland Creek Second Battle of Franklin Wilson's Raid
Other work	Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder

Abraham "Abe" Buford II (January 18, 1820 – June 9, 1884) was an American soldier and landowner. After serving in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War, Buford joined the Confederate States Army in 1862 and served as a cavalry general in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After the war, he retired to his native Kentucky and became a thoroughbred horse breeder.

Abraham Buford was born in Woodford County, Kentucky, the son of Frances W. Kirtley and her husband, William B. Buford (1781–1848). He was named for his great-uncle Abraham who was a Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War. He descended from a Huguenot family named Beaufort who fled persecution in France and settled in England before emigrating to America in 1635. His cousins, John and Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, who grew up nearby, were generals in the Union Army during the Civil War.

Buford studied at Centre College before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York in 1837. Graduating in 1841, as a second-lieutenant with the First dragoons from 1842 through 1846, he did Frontier duty in the Kansas Territory and the Indian Territory. He then served in the Mexican–American War in which he was appointed brevet captain for bravery at the Battle of Buena Vista. When that war ended, he was dispatched for further duty on the Frontier and in 1848 was part of the Santa Fe Trail expedition. In 1849, Buford escorted the mail from Santa Fe, New Mexico to the east, using, in part, the new Cherokee Trail. He was then sent to the Army's cavalry school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania but in October 1854 he resigned his commission and returned to his native Kentucky where his family owned a farm property near Versailles in his native Woodford County.