| Summary: | (No photograph in uniform is known to exist.) Appointed Secretary of War for the Confederate States in February 1861 and resigned the post in September 1861. Appointed as a brigadier general in September 1861 and resigned in March 1862. Spent the remainder of the war as an attorney and judge. After the war, Walker continued to practice law in Huntsville, Alabama. He died in Huntsville in August 1884 and is buried there. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 6. National Historical Society, 1991. Owen, Thomas M. History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Vol. IV. Chicago: S.J. Clarke, 1921.
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