Hercules Walker

Birth Date

c1824

Death Date

1865

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Jefferson County, Kentucky, farmer and guerrilla. Kentucky native. Son of Gideon Walker and Eliza Walker. Farmer in Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1850. Confederate guerrilla. Killed by Edwin Terrell, commander of the Independent Kentucky Scouts (U.S.A.), in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District 2, p. 233A.
Hulbert, Matthew Christopher, The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West (Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2016), 268, n. 15.

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