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Walker County, Georgia

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Baldwin, Bowyer, Brown, Gordon and 6 others
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    Chiles Fowler Brown (1891 - 1975)
    My Grandfather was a WWI Veteran. As with most veterans he would never discuss the war. As a patient in the VA hospital in Atlanta GA he begin discussing his duties with the nurses. They would ask us ...
  • Colonel Philemon Prindle Baldwin, II (USA) (1836 - 1863)
    Colonel Philemon Prindle Baldwin Find A Grave Memorial ID # 24060910 Colonel Philemon Baldwin Indiana 6th Infantry, U.S. National Park Service War of the Rebellion, Middle Tennessee Campaign, ...
  • Cpl. Benjamin Z. Bowyer, (USA) (1840 - 1863)
    Name: Benjamin Z Bowyer Enlistment Date: 23 Sep 1861 Enlistment Place: Shepherdsville, Kentucky Enlistment Rank: Corporal Muster Date: 1 Nov 1861 Muster Place: Kentucky Muster Company: B Muster Regimen...
  • Pvt. William W. McCollum, (CSA) (1826 - 1863)
    William W McCollum enlisted during the war between the states in early 1863. He died during the Battle of Chickamauga. His body was never returned home. It is believed he was buried on the battlefield.
  • (USA), Zeboim Cartter Patten, Sr. (1840 - 1925)
    . Cartter Patten, prominent Chattanooga industrialist and capitalist, was born in Wilna, New York, and educated at Lawville Academy. During the Civil War, he served with the 115th Illinois Infantry and...

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The county was created on December 18, 1833, from land formerly belonging to the Cherokee Indian Nation. It was named after Georgia's U.S. Senator, Freeman Walker (1780-1827).

Civil War battles fought in Walker County were part of the Chickamauga Campaign fought between August 21 and September 20, 1863:

Adjacent Counties

Cities & Communities

  • Chattanooga Valley
  • Chickamauga
  • Fairview
  • Flintstone
  • Fort Oglethorpe
  • High Point
  • Kensington
  • LaFayette (County Seat)
  • Lakeview
  • Lookout Mountain
  • Naomi
  • Rock Spring
  • Rossville
  • Villanow

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Wikipedia

Nat'l Reg. of Hist. Places

Chattahoochee National Forest (part)

Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park (part)
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