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Walter H. Peters (New Orleans, Louisiana, attorney and bank commissioner (CSA only?))

b. 1827?

New Orleans, Louisiana, attorney and state official. New York native. Married to Mary T. Peters. Clerk in New Orleans in 1850. Attorney in New Orleans in 1860. Employed Ellen Murray in New Orleans in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in New Orleans in 1860. Notary public in New Orleans in 1861. Appointed commissioner for Commonwealth of Kentucky in Louisiana in 1863.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Louisiana, Orleans County, New Orleans, p. 135.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Louisiana, Orleans County, New Orleans, p. 135.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Louisiana, Orleans County, New Orleans, p. 212.

New Orleans, Louisiana, City Directory, 1861, U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995, 351, (accessed via ancestry.com).

KYR-0001-007-0084.

Citation

Peters, Walter H.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32211734 (November 12, 2026).

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