Civil War Governors of Kentucky · Civil War Governors of Kentucky

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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.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

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.

Citation

Walker, Hercules. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212638 (November 12, 2026).

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Documents (2)

Correspondence
Edwin Terrell to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-06-17
Correspondence
Zachariah Wheat to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-06-10

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