Eleazer R. Walker

He was a 26 year old miner when he enlisted on 11 May 1859 as Private, Battery D, 2nd United States Artillery at Fort Hamilton, NY.

He was with his Battery in Maryland but he died of typhoid fever at a hospital in Hagerstown, MD on 14 November 1862.

He was probably initially buried in a plot near the Alms House in Hagerstown, and later reinterred in Massachusetts.

His mother Vienna Walker later applied for a Federal pension based on his service, which was approved.

Basic information from the Registers.1 Death detail from an article in the Hagerstown Herald of Freedom & Torch Light of 19 November 1862. His gravesite is on Findagrave. The pension application is in the US National Archives (via Fold3). Some family genealogists have his name as Eleazor R. Walker.

c. 1833; Springfield, MA

11/14/1862; Hagerstown, MD; burial in Three Rivers - Thorndike Cemetery, Three Rivers, MA