serviceyears branch death_date allegiance birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place battles term_start rank image name predecessor birth_place president party office successor religion article_title
1861-1862 , 1864-1865 csa 23 august 1884 confederate states 7 february 1817 september 16 , 1861 university of alabama , tuscaloosa university of virginia huntsville , alabama , u.s. american civil war february 25 , 1861 35px brigadier general walker , leroy pope 1.jpg leroy walker position established huntsville , alabama , u.s. jefferson davis democratic confederate states secretary of war judah benjamin presbyterianism leroy pope walker

leroy pope walker

leroy pope walker -lrb- february 7 , 1817 -- august 23 , 1884 -rrb- was the first confederate states secretary of war .
