Walter J. Morris
Walter J. Morris lived in Tennessee before the Civil War. He sided with the Confederacy, and he received a commission as a 1st lieutenant with the Confederate Engineer Corps. He was promoted to captain on May 5, 1863. He served on the staff of General Leonidas Polk and served as acting chief engineer for the Army of Mississippi in the spring of 1864. He surrendered on May 4, 1865, as part of General Richard Taylor’s command. He received a parole six days later, on May 10, 1865. He died sometime after 1874.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (3984) | Morris, Walter J. |
- Conflict Side: Confederacy
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: 1st Lieutenant
- Rank out: Captain
- Rank highest: Captain
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 4
Regiments - Records: 2
SOURCES
Military Service Records of Walter J. Morris, available from Fold3.com; Earl Hess, Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2018), 21; John Bell Hood, Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies (New Orleans, LA: n.p., 1880).
