Find a Grave memorial: Capt Westley D. Walden

Transcription

Field

Memorial

Name

Capt Westley D. Walden

Birth

1 Aug 1829 · Autauga County, Alabama, USA

Death

10 Oct 1863 · Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA

Burial

Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery · Nixburg, Coosa County, Alabama, USA

Inscription

Co. B 2 Batt Ala Inf CSA Hilliard's Legion

GPS

32.8199382, -86.1118746

Veteran

yes

Created by

Richard Robinson (46480518)

Added

2008-02-03

Photos

6 (2 of the grave)

Biography on the memorial (contributor's text, not a primary source):

Captain Westley D. Walden commanded Company B of the 2nd Battalion of Hilliard's Legion during the brutal Battle of Chickamauga . He made a name for himself in the official order of battle when he successfully took command of the 2nd Battalion after Lieutenant-Colonel Bolling Hall, Jr. was wounded. Walden himself was subsequently wounded in the breast, arm and shoulder, inside the enemy's works. His case deserves special mention. Lieut. Col. Hall wrote: "Lieutenant-Colonel Hall, while leading the command under the fiercest fire, was shot down at a time when by hard fighting we had almost reached the enemy's works. Captain Walden assumed command, and bravely led the still advancing line until shot down within the enemy's lines. Lieutenant Fisher, a brave officer of Company C, about this time was mortally wounded. The works were carried and the enemy driven before us in confusion. The battalion carried into action 230 aggregate; of these, 16 were killed, 75 wounded, many mortally." As a result of his wounds, Capt. Westley D. Walden died on 10 Oct 1863 in the Academy Hospital at the Georgia Military Academy in Marietta, Cobb County, GA and is buried in Nixburg UMC Cemetery in Nixburg, Coosa County, AL.

Children linked on the memorial: William Walker Walden (1850–1920); George Walden (1860–1929)

Person	Fact	Document says	Tree says	Assessment
Capt Westley D. Walden	Birth	1 Aug 1829 Autauga County, Alabama, USA	1 August 1819 Autauga, Alabama, United States	conflicts on the year: the memorial follows the headstone, a modern government marker cut "AUG 1 1829" (Matt Wade's photograph of 9 April 2026, record); the 1860 census gives W. D. Walden aged 40 (born about 1819 or 1820), so the tree's 1819 is the better-supported year; the day agrees
Capt Westley D. Walden	Death	10 Oct 1863 Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia, USA	10 October 1863 Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, United States	agrees (the place is the contributor's; the stone gives the date only); FS-197 asks the service record to settle where he died
Capt Westley D. Walden	Burial	Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery Nixburg, Coosa County, Alabama, USA	1863 Nixburg United Methodist Church Cemetery, Nixburg, Coosa, Alabama, United States	agrees; whether the marker stands over a grave or is a memorial to a man who died in a Marietta hospital is not shown

Transcription

What it says, against the tree