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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jeremiah Leander Walker

"Jerry"

(c. 1843 - 1909)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 49th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 8 younger siblings on their small farm at Webb's Ford in Rutherford County, NC. He enlisted in McDowell County, NC on 27 February 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 49th North Carolina Infantry at Camp Mangum near Raleigh on 15 April.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action on 17 September 1862 at Sharpsburg.

The rest of the War

He was with his regiment to at least August 1864 and was captured as a "deserter from the enemy" on 8 March 1865 and sent to Washington, DC arriving there on the 10th. He then took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was furnished transportation to Jennings County, IN (?).

After the War

In 1870 he was a farmer near Yorkville in York County, SC but by 1880 and to at least 1900 was farming back in Rutherford County, NC.

References & notes

His service from Moore1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3, as Jerry L Walker. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Isabelle Carson Smart (1842-1901) in September 1861 and they had 7 children.

Birth

c. 1843; Rutherford County, NC

Death

06/15/1909; in NC; burial in Pisgah United Methodist Church Cemetery, Rutherfordton, NC

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. III, pp. 395 - 398 [AotW citation 12294]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34749]

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