Soldiers Records

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Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
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Personal Information Enlistment Records

Name: James Alexander Walker

Birth Place: Mt. Meridian, Augusta Co.

Date of Birth: 8/31/1840

Physical Description:

Prewar Life:Student, age 18, Augusta Co. 1850 census; Att. V.M.I. 3 years and 8 1/2 mos., class of 1853; Gd. U. of Va., 1854; Lawyer, Dublin

Date of Enlistment: 4/16/1861

Place of Enlistment: Pulaski Co.

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Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer

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Service Information Military Service Record

Rank: Capt.

Company: C

Transfer Company:

Regiment: 4th Va. Inf.

Promotions: To Lt. Col., 13th Va. Inf., 00-00-1861; to Col., 02-26-1862; to Brig. Gen., 05-16-1863

Transfers and Other Service:

Muster Sheet: Commanded Stonewall Brigade

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Paroled: //

Notes: Surrendered Appomattox C.H., 04-09-65

Wounded/Killed Information Other Information

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Wounded in Action: Spotsylvania C.H., - 5/12/1864

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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney

Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)

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Postwar Life: Lawyer, Wytheville; Member, Va. Legislature, 2 terms; Member, U.S. Congress, 2 terms; Governor of Va., 1876-80; Member, Stonewall Jackson Camp, CV, Staunton obituary states he was a sharpshooter

Death Place: Wytheville

Date of Death: 10/20/1901

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Burial Place: Wytheville

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