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This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities; this finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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Collection Overview
| Size | 300 items |
| Abstract | James A. (James Alexander) Walker (1832-1901) was a lawyer, Confederate brigadier general, Democratic state official, and a Republican United States representative, 1895-1899, of Virginia. The collection includes scattered papers of and about Walker, including a small amount of Walker's own correspondence: letters to his fiancee in the 1850s while he was at the University of Virginia and practicing law in Pulaski County, Va., and personal and political letters in Wythe County, Va., when he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives in the 1890s. Other papers include 1870s manuscript speeches, correspondence, and clippings about Walker, and a typescript biography by his daughter, Mrs. M. M. Caldwell. |
| Creator | Walker, James A. (James Alexander), 1832-1901.
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| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, September 2010; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
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Biographical Information
James Alexander Walker (1832-1901) was a lawyer, Confederate brigadier general, Democratic state official, and Republican United States representative, 1895-1899, of Virginia.
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Scope and Content
The collection includes scattered papers of and about Walker, including a small amount of Walker's own correspondence: letters to his fiancee in the 1850s while he was at the University of Virginia and practicing law in Pulaski County, Va., and personal and political letters in Wythe County, Va., when he was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives in the 1890s. Other papers include 1870s manuscript speeches, correspondence, and clippings about Walker, and a typescript biography by his daughter, Mrs. M. M. Caldwell.
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1855-1929 and undated.
Materials in this series include letters to his fiancee, Miss Sarah A. Poage, of Augusta County, Va., in the 1850s while he was at the University of Virginia and practicing law in Pulaski County, Va. The letters give details of social life, descriptions of Miss Poage's visits to relatives and resorts, plans for their future life, and other matters. There is a single letter from Walker written during the Civil War, 1862, written to his wife from a camp near Swift's Run Gap. Also included are personal and political letters when Walker was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives in the 1890s. Later letters are primarily letters of condolence to Mrs. M. M. Caldwell, Walker's daughter, on the occasion of his death.
Arrangement: chronological.
| Folder 1a |
Original finding aid |
| Folder 1 |
1855-1886 |
| Folder 2 |
1892-1898 |
| Folder 3 |
1899 |
| Folder 4 |
1900-1905 |
| Folder 5 |
1912-1929 |
| Folder 6 |
Undated and fragments |
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Series 2. Speeches, 1873-1896 and undated.
This series includes seventeen speeches, typed and manuscript, made at various times by General Walker, and a number of miscellaneous notes for speeches.
| Folder 7 |
White Sulpher Springs, 1873 |
| Folder 8 |
Richmond and Salem, 1878 |
| Folder 9 |
Shelburne School, 1878 |
| Folder 10 |
Pulaski, 1892 |
| Folder 11 |
Presidential Canvas, 1896 |
| Folder 12 |
Fredericksburg, 1896 |
| Folder 13 |
V.M.I. and undated |
Folder 14-17
Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17 |
Undated |
| Folder 18 |
Notes and copies |
| Folder 19 |
Notes and draft |
| Folder 20 |
Notes and fragments |
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Series 3. Other Papers, 1878-1928 and undated.
Material in this series includes a biography of James A. Walker written by his daughter, Mrs. M. M. Caldwell, newspapers and clippings pertaining to Walker, deposition notes and transcripts for a contested election case Walker was involved with, pamphlets, and magazines.
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Series 4. Pictures
| Folder 42 |
Folder number not used |
| Image P-852/1 |
Photograph of Nancy A. Wood, undated |
| Image P-852/2 |
Portrait of unidentified man, undated |
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