Walter Davenport Meek

In 1860 he was an unmarried 15 year old factory operative living with his mother Sarah and 4 siblings at Tallassee in Tallapoosa County, AL. He enlisted in Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 13th Alabama Infantry. He was slightly wounded at Malvern Hill, VA on 1 July 1862. He was absent, sick in Virginia hospitals, from 7 July to 29 August.

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was captured at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, paroled the next day and sent to City Point, VA from Washington, DC for exchange on 10 May. He was wounded in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864. He signed a final parole at Montgomery, AL on 19 May 1865.

In 1870 he worked in a cotton mill at Prattville in Autauga County, AL and in 1880 in a cotton mill in Tuscaloosa County, AL. He was back in Prattville in 1900, a night watchman, then a farmer at Prattville by 1910 and to at least 1920.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Susan E Counts in October 1867. He married again, Mary Victoria Snell (1848-1934) in May 1869 and they had 4 children.

01/17/1845; Americus, GA

12/10/1928; in AL; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Prattville, AL