Walter Gwynn

Military Person

1802 – 1882

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Who was Walter Gwynn?

Walter Gwynn was a civil engineer and soldier who became a Virginia Provisional Army general and North Carolina militia brigadier general in the early days of the American Civil War in 1861 and subsequently a Confederate States Army colonel. He was a railroad engineer and railroad president before the Civil War, Florida Comptroller in 1863 and a civil engineer after the Civil War.

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Born
Feb 22, 1802
Jefferson County
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Confederate States of America
Education
  • United States Military Academy
Died
Feb 6, 1882
Baltimore
Resting place
Hollywood Cemetery

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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