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H. J. Walker and L. J. Walker, Co. B., Thirteenth Regiment.

THE TWO BROTHERS.

By CAPTAIN DAVID G. MAXWELL, Co. H, Tuarrry-Firru Ree-
IMENT, NortH CARroLina TROOPS.

The fortune of war was never more strikingly portrayed
perhaps than by the two pictures opposite, entitled “Before
and After,” of two brothers, soldier boys of Mecklenburg
County, who enlisted in Company B, Thirteenth North Car-
olina Regiment, in April, 1861. The first picture of the
boys, L. J. and H. J. Walker, of Mecklenburg County, in
their Confederate uniforms, and with left hands clasped, was
taken in 1861 a short while after enlistment. The second
picture was taken some time after the war, the brothers in
the same position as the first with left hands clasped, but the
left leg of each does not appear in the picture. The leg of
one brother was buried at Gettysburg, Pa., and that of the
other at Hagerstown, Md. L. J. Walker, the younger brother,
was wounded 1 July, 1863, he being the fifth color-bearer to
be shot down in the charge on Cemetery Hill at Gettysburg.
His leg was amputated at the field hospital by Dr. John H.
McAden, of Charlotte. He was afterwards taken prisoner
and sent to David’s Island, N. Y. H. J. Walker, the elder
brother, participated in the three days’ engagement at Get-
tysburg, coming out unhurt, but on the retreat, 13 July, while
on skirmish line near Hagerstown, Md., he was wounded in
the left leg, conveyed to the field hospital and his leg ampu-
tated by the late Dr. Campbell, of Statesville. Young Wal-
ker was put in an ambulance and taken to Martinsburg, Va.,
and a few days thereafter was taken prisoner and sent to
Johnson’s Island, Ohio, and remained there until April,
1864.

The brothers were poor boys and reared on the farm. They
are now in affluent circumstances, and are honored citizens of
Charlotte. Dr. H. J. Walker, the elder, studied medicine
after the war, and now enjoys a good practice and owns two