Who is Buford named after?

Well, I gave you four choices last week: John Buford, Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, Abraham Buford II, and Buford T. Justice. If you are a Smokey and the Bandit movie fan, you quickly eliminated Sheriff Buford T. Justice played by Jackie Gleason. The other three names were all Civil War generals. Will the real General Buford please step forward? The question was posed to me by Joe Dungan weeks ago. Sorry, Joe, I don’t have a…