Buckner's Corps

Historical marker location:

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia

( Marker is on Viniard Road east of LaFayette Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1890

Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner.

The state of Georgia was home to the first American-born saint, Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, who founded the Sacred Heart Orphanage in Savannah in 1900.