Buck, Alfred E
soldier, educator, congressman, was born Feb. 7, 1832, in Foxcroft, Maine. He entered the army in 1861 as captain in thirteenth Maine infantry; was lieutenant-colonel of ninety-first colored troops in 1863, and of the fifty-first colored troops in 1864.
He was brevetted colonel of volunteers for gallant conduct at the siege of Fort Blakely in 1865. He was a member of the constitutional convention of Alabama in 1867. He was presidential elector in 1868; and was elected to the forty-first congress.