WALKER
WALKER
1850, aiul was judge of tlio circuit court, lS."")0-55,
becoming a leader of the southern bar. He was
chairnian of the Alabama delegation to tlu' Dem-
ocratic national convention at Charleston in ISGO.
and to the adjourned conventions held at Kich-
mond anil Baltimore the same year, supporting
the Breckinridge and Lane ticket. Wlien Ala-
bama seceded, he was apjwinted by Governor
Moore a special commissioner to confer with the
authorities of the state of Tennessee on the ques-
tion of secession and he made an effective speech
before the legislature, urging the co-operation of
the state with the other slave states in forming a
new confederacy. In making up the first cabinet
of the Confederate provisional government. Feb.
1. 18C1, President Davis made him secretary of
war. He exchanged telegrams with Gen. G. T.
Beauregard during the investment and capture
of Fort Sumter in April, 1861, and in a speech
made at Montgomery, April 12,1861, on the re-
ceipt of the news of the fall of Sumter, amid the
universal enthusiasm, and with little time for
reflection or to weigh the significance of his
words, he was reported to have said that the
Confederate flag would wave over the Capitol at
Washington by the first of May and eventually
over Faneuil Hall, Boston, These words were
not admitted to have been said by him {vide
Stephens's " War Between the States," Vol. I. p.
415), but the purpose of uniting the South ngainst
the North was strongly asserted. The task of
equipping armies without material and with
limited resources was herculean and when he re-
signed, Sept. 21, 1861, his health was shattered.
He immediately joined the C.S. army as briga-
dier-general; served in the department of Ala-
bama and West Florida, and commanded the
forces at Mobile and Montgomery, He resigned
liis commission in the army in March. 1863, on
account of continued ill health, and was judge of
a military court, 1863-65, He resumed his law
partnersiiip with Judge Brickell at Huntsville in
1865, He was president of the state constitutional
convention of 1875, and delegate-at-large to the
Democratic national convention at St. Louis in
1>:<76, and to tiie Chicago convention of 1884. He
was twice married: first, in 1834. to Miss Hop-
kins of Mississippi; and secondly, in July. 1850,
to Eliza, daughter of Judge William Dickson
and Eliza Goddard (Wliitman) Pickett of Mont-
gomery, Ala. Capt. Clift<m Walker of Gen.
Tracy's stall and Lieut. Percy Walker, C.S.A.,
were sons by his first marriage, and his only sur-
viving .son (1903) was Dr. Leroy Pof)e Walker of
New York city. General Walker died in Hunts-
ville, Ala.. Aug. 23. 1884.
WALKER, Lucius Marsh, soldier, was born in Tennessee in 1829; a descendant of the family of President James K, Polk. He was aj^pointed
a cadet at large to the U.S. Military academy
and was graduated number 15 in the class of
1850, and promoted in the armj' brevet 2d lieu-
tenant of dragoons, July 1, 1850. He served in
the calvar}' school, Carlisle, Pa., 1850; was pro-
moted 2d lieutenant, 2d dragoons, Aug. 8, 1851,
and served in Texas, 1851-52, resigning his com-
mission March 31, 1852. He was married to Miss
Garth of Virginia and engaged in mercantile
business in Tennessee. He was appointed colonel
of the 40th Tennessee regiment and commandant
of the poi-t of Memphis, Nov. 11, 1861; was com-
missioned brigadier-general. March 11. 1802; en-
gaged in the battle of Farmington, May 9, 1802,
and attacked and drove the Federals from their
works. In March, 1803, he was ordered to the
Trans-Mississippi department and was assigned to
a cavalry brigade. He commanded a division
made up of two Arkansas calvary brigades under
Col. Robert C. Newton and Col. Archibald S.
Dobbin in Gen. T. H. Holmes's army, operating
in the district of Arkansas, and engaged in the
battle at Fort Righter, Helena, July 4, 1863, also
under Price's command in the Little Rock ex-
pedition, August-September, 1863, and the battle
Sept. 10, 1863, at the dam on Bayou Fourche. He
was killed in a duel by Gen. John S. Marmaduke
(who also commanded a division of General
Price's army), in Arkansas. Sept. 16. 1863.
WALKER, Reuben Lindsay, soldier, was born in Albemarle county, Va.. May 29, 1827. He was graduated from the Virginia Military' institute in 1845; and served as a civil engineer on the Ches- apeake and Ohio railroad, 1845-61. As captain of artillery in the Virginia militia he was in com- mand of the battery at Aquia creek in 1861, arriv- ing from Fredericksburg w^ith his six-Parrot-gun battery in time to shell the fugitives from the first battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861. He was promoted major, and lieutenant-colonel; was in command of the artillery in Gen. A. P. Hill's di- vision, Jackson's corps in the second battle of Manassas, Aug. 29-30, 1862, and at the capture of Harper's Ferry, Sept. 14-15, 1862, he crossed the Potomac with several batteries and obtained a commanding position on the slope of Loudoun Mountain. He took part in the battles of Fred- ericksburg and Chancellorsville, being appointed colonel in the provisional Confederate army in April, 1863. He commanded the reserve artillery of Hill's 3d corps at the battle of Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863; bore a prominent part in the Petersburg and Richmond campaigns of 1864; was promoted brigadier-general, Feb. 18, 1865, and surrendered with Lee at Ajipomatox. He died in Fluvanna county, Va., June 7, 1890.
WALKER, Robert John, cabinet officer, was I.orn in X(.rtlminl)rilaii(l. Pa., July 23, 1801; son of Jonathan Iloge and Lucy (Duncan) Walker,
