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(1842 - 1898)
Home State: Texas
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 4th Texas Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
An 18 year old clerk (or student) in Guadalupe County, he enlisted at Camp Clark in Guadalupe as a Private in Company A, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was occasionally sick in hospitals but was with his Company to the end of the war: surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
By 1870 he was a miller in Caldwell County, TX and in 1880 was a merchant in Prairie Lea.
References & notes
Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
His brother Patrick Henry Walker was also in Company A.
Birth
07/07/1842; Haywood County, TN
Death
12/30/1898; Luling, TX; burial in Luling City Cemetery, Luling, TX
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 1653]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Soldiers who served in US Volunteer organizations enlisted for service during the Civil War, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26760]