LeRoy Pope Walker (February 7, 1817 – August 23, 1884) was the first Confederate States Secretary of War. Walker was born near Huntsville, Alabama in 1817...
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LeRoy Pope (January 30, 1765 – June 17, 1844) was an American planter, lawyer, and early settler of Madison County, Alabama. He purchased much of the land...
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Leroy Walker may refer to: LeRoy Pope Walker (1817–1884), first Confederate States Secretary of War LeRoy T. Walker (1918–2012), first black president...
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Confederate States. Davis appointed LeRoy Pope Walker as the first Confederate secretary of war in February 1861. Walker’s first major role involved the situation...
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Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Former Confederate Secretary of War LeRoy Pope Walker called this intersection "the vertebrae of the Confederacy." Halleck...
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Guelzo describes the first Confederate secretaries of war and state, LeRoy Pope Walker of Alabama and Robert Toombs of Georgia, respectively—as "brainless...
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Libraries. Retrieved 7 May 2014. "LeRoy Pope Walker". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 28 June 2023. Samway, Patrick. Walker Percy: A Life. (Loyola Press...
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Several men served the Confederacy as Secretary of War, including Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, James Seddon, and John C....
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was admitted to the bar at Petersburg. In 1808, Walker married Matilda Pope, daughter of LeRoy Pope and Judith Sale, and in 1810, he followed his father-in-law...
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Benjamin, LeRoy Pope Walker, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, John H. Reagan, Christopher Memminger, Alexander H. Stephens, and Robert Toombs The pope's photograph...
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were sold to the city of Huntsville on September 14, 1822, by planter LeRoy Pope. Though early burials are difficult to document, there is substantial...
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statement supporting or recognizing the Confederacy. In November 1863, Mann met Pope Pius IX and received a letter supposedly addressed "to the Illustrious and...
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in Richmond, Virginia with his regiment and received orders from LeRoy Pope Walker, Confederate States Secretary of War, to board the train and move...
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procured the young man's job at the War Department. Although Alabama's Leroy Walker was Secretary of War, Davis—a war hero and former U.S. War Secretary—considered...
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Peninsula with Yorktown as headquarters. The Confederate Secretary of War LeRoy Pope Walker ordered the Department of the Peninsula into existence on May 26,...
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Judah P. Benjamin, Stephen Mallory, Christopher Memminger, Alexander Stephens, LeRoy Pope Walker, Jefferson Davis, John H. Reagan and Robert Toombs....
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John Williams Walker, politician LeRoy Pope Walker, Confederate States Secretary of War Percy Walker, politician Richard Wilde Walker, Confederate politician...
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Alabama, was an 1851 graduate of Yale University. He was the nephew of LeRoy Pope Walker, the first Secretary of War of the Confederacy. Following Yale University...
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after, eventually being sold for scrap. The troop transport USS General LeRoy Eltinge (AP-154) was sold out of federal service to the Waterman Steamship...
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death. Walker was the son of Richard Wilde Walker.[citation needed] He was the grandson of John Williams Walker and nephew of LeRoy Pope Walker and Percy...
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L-R: Judah P. Benjamin, Stephen Mallory, Christopher Memminger, Alexander Stephens, LeRoy Pope Walker, Jefferson Davis, John H. Reagan and Robert Toombs...
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Senator from Alabama 1819–22. Father of Percy Walker, LeRoy Pope Walker, and Richard Wilde Walker. Percy Walker (1812–1880), Alabama State Attorney, Alabama...
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Judah P. Benjamin, Stephen Mallory, Christopher Memminger, Alexander Stephens, LeRoy Pope Walker, Jefferson Davis, John H. Reagan and Robert Toombs....
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Hart Lincoln Phelps, educator and author (born 1793) 23 August – LeRoy Pope Walker, 1st Confederate States Secretary of War (born 1817) 2 September –...
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Walker (1832–1901), brigadier general John George Walker (1821–1893), major general LeRoy Pope Walker (1817–1884), brigadier general Lucius M. Walker...
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Seminole War (1817–1818) Era of Good Feelings (1817–1825) February 7 – LeRoy Pope Walker, 1st Confederate States Secretary of War (died 1884) February 8 –...
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floating battery after the surrender of the former fort" and sent to LeRoy Pope Walker, Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America, in Montgomery...
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board. After contacting the Confederate States Secretary of War, LeRoy Pope Walker, Hindman received permission to recruit a regiment for Confederate...
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of recruiting. On July 17, 1861, the Confederate Secretary of War LeRoy Pope Walker wrote to the Virginia Secretary of the Commonwealth George W. Munford...
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Pope Clement IV (Latin: Clemens IV; c. 23 November 1190 – 29 November 1268), born Gui Foucois (Latin: Guido Falcodius; French: Guy de Foulques or Guy Foulques)...
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