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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Patrick Henry Walker

(1840 - 1888)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A "stock raiser" on his father's place in Guadalupe County, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded in in the head in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was sent home on furlough in November and was back on duty by March 1863. He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant on 1 March 1864 and 2nd Sergeant on 6 May. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

He married in November 1865 in Madison County, TN and was a farmer there in 1880.

References & notes

Service information from Davis1 and from his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother William Byron Walker was also in Company A.

He married Mary Elizabeth Chapman (1847-1881) in November 1865 and they had 4 children. He married again, Sarah Elizabeth Swann (1849-1927) in May 1883.

Birth

04/20/1840; Haywood County, TN

Death

07/20/1888; Prairie Lea, TX; burial in Prairie Lea Public Cemetery, Prairie Lea, TX

Notes

1   Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 148-150, 315-316  [AotW citation 1652]

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 26596]