DOB:  1844 DOD:  June 27, 1864 Age at Enlistment: 17 Date of Enlistment:  May 9, 1861 Place of Enlistment:  Franklin, TN Rank at Enlistment:  Private Rank at Discharge:  1st Sergeant Casualty:  Henry was wounded in thigh at Perryville on October 8, 1862 and captured the next day in the hospital.  He was exchanged at Vicksburg in December, 1862.  He was later killed at Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, 1864. Comments:  Henry was born in Alabama but grew up in District 8 of Williamson County (the area northeast of Franklin).  The 1850 Census shows him to be living with a lady that appears to be his grandmother.  By the 1860 Census he is living with Dr. Hardy Maney and is attending school.  Based on his location in District 8 he was probably attending Boiling Springs Academy.  Jefferson Cooke of the Company was living in the same household.  Henry enlisted at the Company’s formation and one May evening before leaving for Camp Cheatham Henry and Christopher Henry “Kit” Ridley were gathered at the house of Mrs. Adalicia German with several young people.  Henry looked up at the sky and remarked, “Girls if I should bite the dust, I of course will not return, but when you hear that I am dead look in the direction of that planet, for I am going to throw you a letter from there.”  Both will die a month apart in 1864. Henry’s health appears to have been good and he shows as present on all rosters on his service record.  According to George Nichols, Henry’s messmates were James McEwen, George Nichols, William H. Moody, James G. Moody, and John Watson.  Kit Ridley remembered in a letter that Henry’s shoes wore out during the march to Hancock, MD in January 1862, and with bleeding feet Walker stayed with the company and never left the line, he was so anxious to be in a fight.  At the Company’s reorganization on April 30, 1862, Henry was elected 3rd Sergeant.  Henry was then promoted to 1st Sergeant when Kit Ridley was promoted to Lieutenant in June 1863.  Henry was wounded in the thigh at Perryville and captured the next day.  He spent two months as a prisoner before being exchanged.  Henry unfortunately met his end defending the Dead Angle during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, 1864.  His friend Kit Ridley was killed in the Battle of Atlanta a month later and inside Kit’s jacket was a letter to his own mother letting her know that Henry had been killed.