LeRoy Pope Walker papers [manuscript] 1861-1865.

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LeRoy Pope Walker papers [manuscript] 1861-1865.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647949071

Papers include correspondence, regarding political and military activities; and biographical sketches.

1 microfilm (positive and negative).

University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7929617

University of Virginia. Library

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Walker, Leroy Pope, 1817-1884

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Lawyer, politician, and Confederate secretary of war (1861). From the description of Papers, 1861-1868. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41150151 Leroy Pope Walker was the first Confederate Secretary of War and later Brigadier General. John Beauchamp Jones was the author of "A Rebel War Clerk's Diary" (Philadelphia, 1866), which presented a vivid picture of wartime Richmond. Therein he described seeing Walker in Montgomery on 19 May 1861, and, telling him of hi...