Friday, April 29, 2011

Peter Walker

Peter Walker was a skillful physician.  He was a surgeon in the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry [sic] during the Civil War and lost his life in his country's cause, dying soon after the battle of Arkansas Post.

SOURCE: Portrait and Biographical Record of Marion and Hardin Counties, Ohio, p. 433, abstracted from the biographical sketch of Gen. Moses B. Walker.

NOTE:  Peter Walker served as an assistant surgeon in the 30th Iowa Infantry and not the 15th Iowa Infantry.

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