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Francis Marion Walker (November 12, 1827 – July 22, 1864) was a Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War (Civil War). He was killed while commanding a brigade at the Battle of Atlanta of July 22, 1864, one day before his commission as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army was delivered. == Early life == Francis Marion Walker was born in Paris, Kentucky on November 12, 1827.〔Allardice, Bruce S.'' More Generals in Gray.'' Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8071-3148-2 (pbk.). p. 231.〕〔Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher. ''Civil War High Commands''. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. p. 614.〕〔Allardice, 1995, p. 232 says that census records refute an alternate date of birth in 1821 that has sometimes been given for Walker.〕 His parents were John and Tabitha (Taylor) Walker.〔〔Allardice, 1995, p. 232 says that he investigated the claim by sources such as Armstrong, 1931, pp. 466–467 which state that Walker's mother was a niece of President Zachary Taylor and could find no support for the claim.〕 Walker's mother died while he was young.〔 In 1843, the Walker family moved to Hawkins County in east Tennessee, where his father was proprietor of a tavern.〔〔In 1857, John Walker was appointed Indian agent to the Tohono O'odham (previously sometimes referred to as the Papago people), Pima people and Maricopa people at Tucson, Arizona. Thrapp, Dan L. ('Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: P-Z' ). Volume 3. Glendale, CA: A. H. Clark Co., 1988. ISBN 978-0-8032-9420-2. p. 1498.〕 Walker had a limited formal education but taught school for his own education and to earn money for college tuition.〔 Walker was elected Second Lieutenant in the 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, commanded by his father as colonel, during the Mexican-American War.〔〔Thrapp, Dan L. ('Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography: P-Z' ). Volume 3. Glendale, CA: A. H. Clark Co., 1988. ISBN 978-0-8032-9420-2. p. 1498.〕 The unit was sent to Mexico but the war was over before it could be sent into action.〔 Walker graduated with honors from Transylvania University in 1850.〔 He established a law practice in Rogersville, Tennessee.〔 In 1854, he moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee and set up a law practice.〔 He was a Chattanooga alderman in 1858–1859 and attorney general of the Tennessee Fourth District from 1860 until the start of the Civil War.〔 Walker had a prominent son, Lapsley Greene Walker, a Chattanooga newspaperman who opposed the Ku Klux Klan.〔Moore, Gay Morgan. ( 'Chattanooga's Forest Hills Cemetery' ) Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing Co., 2011. ISBN 978-0-7385-8694-6. p. 54.〕〔A genealogical book states that Mary Ann (Baily) Walker, widow of Francis Marion Walker, married John Perry L. May, born 1839, but does not give a date. The time period appears to be correct for this widow to have been the wife of Colonel Walker. Doliante Sharon J. ('Maryland and Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of Some Colonial Families' ). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1991. ISBN 978-0-8063-4762-2. p. 99. On the other hand, another source says that Walker's wife was Mary (Kelso) Walker and that they had five children. Hale, Will Thomas and Dixon Lanier Merrit. ('A history of Tennessee and Tennesseans: the leaders and representative men in commerce, industry and modern activities' ), Volume 7. Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1913. . p. 2100. In Allardice, Bruce S. ''Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register.'' Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4., Allardice agrees that her name was Margaret Kelso.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francis Marion Walker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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