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Rh to surrender. Since the war he has resided at Portsmouth, was for fifteen years locomotive engineer on the Seaboard Air Line railroad, and for six years master mechanic in the Portsmouth shops of that company, and since 1895 has conducted the Portsmouth steam laundry, doing a very prosperous business. He is a member of Stonewall camp, and in the Masonic order has filled every office from junior deacon to commander of Knight TemplarsKnights Templar [sic]. He organized the "Knights of Dixie" since disbanded. In the city council he has been a prominent member and is now chairman of the street committee. Mr. Walker was married first to Azulah F., daughter of Rev. William Knott, and after her death he wedded Mrs. Annie Beauregard (Warren) Riddick, a descendant of Gen. Joseph Warren, killed at Bunker Hill. Three children are living: Lee Wood, C. W. Jr. and Russell Ashby.

T. D. Walker, of Norfolk, a gallant cavalryman of the army of Northern Virginia, was born in Currituck county, N. C., in 1840, a son of Thomas Walker and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Willoughby West. He was reared and educated in his native county and barely reached his majority when the Confederacy was formed and he felt it his duty to serve in its defense. He enlisted in the first volunteer company organized in the county, under Capt. Samuel D. Bell, which was mustered into the service as Company G of the Fourth North Carolina regiment of cavalry. With his command he was stationed at Currituck Court House and acted as messenger between that place and Norfolk until the evacuation of the latter in 1862, when his command proceeded to Petersburg, and six months later to Richmond. During a portion of this period he served as special courier to General Johnson. In the subsequent campaign he participated in the Seven Days' fighting. At the time of the battle of Fredericksburg he joined the main body of the army at that place, but too late to take part in the engagement. He participated in the famous cavalry fight at Brandy Station in 1863, and then crossed the Potomac and shared with his command in the movements of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart around the Federal army. At Middleburg, Pa., while engaged with his company in a dash against the Federals for the purpose of releasing General Stuart, who had been surrounded by the enemy, he received a severe saber cut, but nevertheless remained on duty and participated in the fight at Gettysburg. He was taken prisoner in this battle and subsequently held as a prisoner for sixty days at Washington, D. C. On being paroled he was sent to hospital, and later he rejoined his command at Culpeper Court House. Subsequently he participated in the many engagements of his command, and in the latter part of 1864 was ordered to Richmond and Petersburg, in the vicinity of which cities he served against the Stoneman raid and at Hatcher's Run, and remained there on duty, taking part in numerous cavalry actions, except when absent upon an expedition in North Carolina, when he took part in the recapture of Kinston. After the surrender of the army he joined a party of sixty men who determined to unite with the command of Colonel Morgan, but on hearing of Morgan's capitulation, he returned to his home. He engaged in farming, which has been his occupation to the present time, though since 1892 failing health has compelled him to reside in