Walter Gwynn Military person

Walter Gwynn (February 22, 1802 – February 6, 1882) 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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Walter Gwynn
Birth dateFebruary 22, 1802
Birth place
Virginia , Jefferson County West Virginia
Date of deathFebruary 06, 1882
Place of death
Baltimore
Resting place
Richmond Virginia , Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond Virginia)

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military operations
American Civil War
service start1822
service end1822

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