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Federal (USV)

Private

James Walker

(1837 - 1862)

Home State: Rhode Island

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Rhode Island Infantry

Before Antietam

From Middletown, he enlisted on 11 September 1861 in Company G, 4th Rhode Island Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds on 11 December 1862 at the General Hospital, Baltimore, MD.

References & notes

Basic information from Dyer1. Life dates from his gravesite on Findagrave.

Birth

1837

Death

12/11/1862; Baltimore, MD; burial in Common Burying Ground, Newport, RI

Notes

1   Dyer, Elisha, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for the Year 1865 (corrected), 2 Volumes, Providence: E.L. Freeman & Son, 1893, Vol. 1, pp. 317 - 322  [AotW citation 14114]