 Complete the following phrase:  Born in Yazoo County, Mississippi, to Charles L. and Maria I. Buck. His father was one of the most eminent jurists and advocates of his state, and one of the few prominent Mississippians to publicly oppose secession during the American Civil War, and his mother was a well-regarded author. Bucks father died in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1862, and the family remained in that city during 