The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-05-22
Communicated.

| General Walkers Military Career
| General James A. Walker entered thu
Confederate army In April, 1861, .as Cap
tain of the Pulaski Guards, and was ordered
to Richmond with his company, which was
Eorganized into the Fourth Virginia. Infan
try, under Colonel James F. Preston. =. !.
I Early in May that regiment was ordered
to Harper's Ferry, and there formed into q
brigade with the Second, Fifth, Twenty
seventh, and Thirty-third, and placed un.
der the command of Colonel I'll. Jackson
| afterwards " Stonewall" Jackson) y &
/ Soon after the evacuation of Harper's
Ferry he was promoted to the rank Of lieu
.tenant-colonel, and assigned to- the Thir-
teenth Virginia infantry, then under the
command of Colonel A. P. Hill afterwards
Ilieutenant-generaD. He was with the
Thirteenth at the first battle Of Manassas;
and in the winter Of 1862, just before Ma
nassas was evacuated, The was promoted to
the colonelcy of the Thirteenth, vice A. P.
Hill, promoted to brigadier-general. After
the evacuation of Manassas his division
Ewell's) was left on the Rappahannock
while Johnson's army went to the PENN
sula and joining Jackson in the Valley,
participated with him in the battles of Win
chester, Front Royal, Cross; Keys, Port Re-
public, and in the seven days fight around
Richmond. $50 ez@atrs-s>--.z .sss ~ -. =
AT the battle of Gaines's Mill, 9th June,
1852, General Elzey (his brigade COM
mander) was wounded early in the action,
and Colonel Walker commanded the bril-
gade until the battle of Malvern Hill, when
General Jubal A. Early was assigned to the
command. . 80. =. $500, "
As colonel. of the Thirteenth he was in
the battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9th,
1862. BY referring to g Dabney's Life Of
Jacksonp you will see that he gives the
Thirteenth the credit Of gaining that day.
Colonel Walker was in command of his
regiment ut second Manassas and at Ok
Hill. After, the fight at Ok Hill he was
placed temporarily in command of Trim
,ble's brigade, and commanded it at the
taking Of Harper's Ferry and at Sharps-
burg. After the battle of Sharpsburg he
was placed in command Of Early brigade,
General Early being then in command of
the division (Ewell's). He remained in
command of Early's brigade during the
rest OF the fall and winter, and commanded
litiat the battle of fredericksburg.
IN April, 1000, C0l0nel WilllHH Omltn
was made q brigadier-general, and as.
signed to Early's brigade. Immediately
after the battle of Charlottesville he
Colonel Walker) was promoted to the rank
of brigadier-general, and assigned, to the
/" Stonewell' y brigade, at Winchester, when
jMilroy was routed by Ewell, and at Gettys-
burg, Mine Run, the Wilderness, and Spot
sylvania Courthouse. FIa ~
On the 18th May, 1854, he was wounded,
and being unfit for tfduty.in the field, was
assigned to the duty Of keeping open Gene
raj Lees communications by the Richmond
and nanYille and Sapthside railroads and
remained on those lines in command Of.
troops stationed at various points until
February, 1865, when he applied for
command in the army, and was assigned to
Pegram's brigade, the same that his old re-
giment 1.-THE Thirtesnth) was In and, being
the SENIOR colonel he commanded the divi-
sion tEarly's1 to- the close of the war and in
the battle of Hare's Hill, and on the retreat
from Petersburg, and surrendered with
General Lee OF Appamattox Courthouse.