sentences:  During the Civil War he enlisted in the Confederate States Army in June 1861 and served until 1865.As Captain of Company D of the Phillips Georgia Legion Cavalry Battalion, he was wounded in the chest on June 11, 1864 at the Battle of Trevilian Station.Buchanan was elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress, but his credentials were not presented to the House as the State had not been readmitted to representation.