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...

Leroy Walker may refer to: LeRoy Pope Walker (1817–1884), first Confederate States Secretary of War LeRoy T. Walker (1918–2012), first black president...

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...

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...

Several men served the Confederacy as Secretary of War, including Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, James Seddon, and John C....

statement supporting or recognizing the Confederacy. In November 1863, Mann met Pope Pius IX and received a letter supposedly addressed "to the Illustrious and...

Libraries. Retrieved 7 May 2014. "LeRoy Pope Walker". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 28 June 2023. Samway, Patrick. Walker Percy: A Life. (Loyola Press...

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...

Mallory, Secretary of the Treasury C. G. Memminger, Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker, Postmaster John H. Reagan, and Secretary of State Robert Toombs...

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...

Peninsula with Yorktown as headquarters. The Confederate Secretary of War LeRoy Pope Walker ordered the Department of the Peninsula into existence on May 26,...

Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. pp. 73–82. ISBN 9780765628381. Daniel Walker Howe, "Missouri, Slave Or Free?" American Heritage, Summer 2010, Vol. 60...

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...

pledged his allegiance to the Confederacy. In May, Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker sent Cooper a letter authorizing him to "take measures to secure the...

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...

John Williams Walker, politician LeRoy Pope Walker, Confederate States Secretary of War Percy Walker, politician Richard Wilde Walker, Confederate politician...

Walker (1832–1901), brigadier general John George Walker (1821–1893), major general LeRoy Pope Walker (1817–1884), brigadier general Lucius M. Walker...

Confederate sympathizer, and had written to Confederate Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker in May, 1861, offering to act as a purchasing agent for Confederate...

Guelzo describes the first Confederate secretaries of war and state, LeRoy Pope Walker of Alabama and Robert Toombs of Georgia, respectively—as "brainless...

of John Williams Walker, the brother of Percy Walker and LeRoy Pope Walker, and father of Richard Wilde Walker, Jr. Richard Walker, Sr. served in the...

Memphis and Charleston Railroad. Former Confederate Secretary of War LeRoy Pope Walker called this intersection "the vertebrae of the Confederacy." Halleck...

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...

Benjamin, LeRoy Pope Walker, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, John H. Reagan, Christopher Memminger, Alexander H. Stephens, and Robert Toombs The pope's photograph...

floor was home to the Southern Telegraph Company. It was there that LeRoy Pope Walker, the Confederate States Secretary of War, sent a telegram to General...

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...

Judah P. Benjamin, Stephen Mallory, Christopher Memminger, Alexander Stephens, LeRoy Pope Walker, Jefferson Davis, John H. Reagan and Robert Toombs....

wealthy planter father, LeRoy Pope, the sisters were related to the English poet Alexander Pope. Percy managed the affairs for Walker while he was away in...

in Richmond, Virginia with his regiment and received orders from LeRoy Pope Walker, Confederate States Secretary of War, to board the train and move...

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...

Hart Lincoln Phelps, educator and author (born 1793) 23 August – LeRoy Pope Walker, 1st Confederate States Secretary of War (born 1817) 2 September –...