Person:Samuel Walker (73)

""We cannot pass without alluding to the gallantry of Corporal Samuel Walker of Company H. He was standing with Colonel Rowett, and while fighting bravely in one of the desperate rebel charges the flag comes falling down over his head, and ere it reaches the blood stained earth, Corporal Walker is seen to grasp its shot-riven staff, and with its silken shreds falling around him, he mounted the works and there in one of the wildest battle storms that ever left blood in its wake, he waved it defiantly in the face of arch-treason,—waved it until a minie went crashing through his brain,—waved it until he fell, and there in blood under that grand old flag, the pride of his heart, the glory of his manhood, he died—died for the flag, died for his country, died for liberty. Glorious spirit! may his name ever shine bright in the book of perpetual remembrance as one of the boldest who helped to defend this second Thermopylae!"^S3

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Illinois, United States. Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls Database.

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2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Memorial# 3958132, in Find A Grave.

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3.   Ambrose, Daniel Leib, and 7th (1861-1865) United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment. History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry: from its first muster into the U. S. Service, April 25, 1861, to its final muster out, July 9, 1865. (Bethesda, Maryland: University Publications of America, c1993).

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4. ↑ Biography of J.T. Walker, in History of Logan County, Illinois: its past and present : containing a history of the county, its cities, towns, etc., a biographical directory of its citizens, war record of its volunteers in the late rebellion, portraits of its early settlers and prominent men, general and local statistics, history of the Northwest, history of Illinois, Constitution of the United States, map of Logan County, miscellaneous matters, etc., etc. (Chicago: Donnelley, Loyd & Co., 1878)
   pp. 816 - 817, 1886.