Crossword clues for buford
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 4044
Land area (2000): 14.727518 sq. miles (38.144095 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.054261 sq. miles (0.140536 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.781779 sq. miles (38.284631 sq. km)
FIPS code: 11784
Located within: Georgia (GA), FIPS 13
Location: 34.117080 N, 83.998535 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 30518
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Buford
Wikipedia
Buford may refer to:
Buford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abraham Buford (1747-1833), commanding officer during the "Waxhaw Massacre".
- Abraham Buford II (1820-1884), Confederate general during the American Civil War
- Algernon Sidney Buford (1826-1911), American colonel and president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad
- Bill Buford (born 1954), American journalist
- Carter M. Buford (1876-1959), American politician from the state of Missouri
- Don Buford (born 1937), American major league baseball player
- John Buford (1826-1863), Union general during the American Civil War
- Napoleon Bonaparte Buford (1807-1883), Union general during the American Civil War
- R.C. Buford (born 1960), general manager of an NBA basketball franchise
Usage examples of "buford".
One had collapsed in its entirety, the one that Buford pointed out had once housed the finest cryology unit in the northeast.
For five days Buford had been tracking Lee's army, shadowing it from a long way off as you track a big cat.
Try that against an Indian, that glorious charge, saber a-shining, and he'd drop behind a rock or a stump and shoot your glorious head off as you went by No, Buford had reformed his boys.
If Reynolds came quick, first thing in the morning, Buford could hold it.
The mist was lifting slowly, the rain was slackening, but Buford could not see the line.
He felt the attack come and turned his face toward the sound of the guns, judging the size of the attack by the width of the sound, and he sat grinning alone in the cupola, while the Rebel troops pushed his line and drew back, bloody, and tried again in another place, the firing spreading all down the line like a popping fuse, and then there was another long silence, and Buford could feel them reforming again, beginning for the first time to take this seriously.
The first report was very bad, and Buford rode over and took command, but it was only concussion and Gamble was back on his feet in a few moments, ragged and dirty.
No one had yet broken away, no one was running, but Buford could feel them giving, like a dam.
Then he said, to Buford, "I think I'll move over and hurry the boys along.
It came over Buford like a sunrise that he had just received Reynolds' greatest compliment.
When Buford got there the thick stain had already puddled the dirt beneath his head.
After a while Buford mounted what was left of his cavalry and rode slowly out that road to the north.
One glanced up, saw him, noted the star, turned, saluted quickly Buford wiggled a finger.
Behind them Buford saw suddenly a familiar face: John Gibbon, of Hancock's corps.
DESPITE THE FUSSING of Buford, aided by the repeated concern of Ellison, his sec boss, it wasn't possible to move Krysty for three hours.