Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

Gilbert Carlton Walker

Primary Sources
  • Self-reported birth date in passport application, Aug. 18, 1868, General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

  • Gilbert Carlton Walker Executive Papers, 1869–1873, Record Group 3, Accession 40233, Library of Virginia.

  • Some letters in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

, Secondary Sources
  • National Cyclopædia of American Biography (1891–1984), 5:453–454 (with marriage date).

  • Audrey Marie Cahill, "Gilbert Carleton Walker, Virginia's Redeemer Governor" (M.A. Thesis, University of Virginia, 1956).

  • Crandall A. Shifflett, "Gilbert Carlton Walker, Carpetbag Conservative," in The Governors of Virginia, 1860–1978, ed. Edward Younger and James Tice Moore, 57–67 (portrait facing 57), 1982.

  • Nelson Morehouse Blake, William Mahone of Virginia: Soldier and Political Insurgent (1935).

  • Jack P. Maddex Jr., The Virginia Conservatives, 1867–1879: A Study in Reconstruction Politics (1970).

  • Brent Tarter, A Saga of the New South: Race, Law, and Public Debt in Virginia (2016).

, Political Career
  • Inaugural Address of Gov. Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, February 8th, 1870 (1870).

  • Walker's messages to General Assembly in Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1869–1870 sess.), 26–29, and House Doc. VI, (1870–1781 sess.), 4–21, (1871–1872) sess., 5–30, and (1872–1873 sess.), 4–19, and House Doc. VI.

  • Walker's veto messages in Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1869–1870 sess.), 668–671, 768, (1871–1872 sess.), 106–111, 386–389.

  • Congressional speeches in Congressional Record, 44th Cong., 1st sess., 3368–3371, 2d sess., 1039–1041, 45th Cong., 1st sess., 159–160, 2d sess., Appendix, 52–53.

  • Public Lands for Educational Purposes. Speech of Hon. Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, in the House of Representatives, May 29, 1876 (1876).

  • Counting the Electoral Votes. Speech of Hon. Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, in the House of Representatives, January 25, 1877 (1877).

  • National Landmarks: Address of the Hon. Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia: Delivered before the Tammany Society, July 4, 1878 (1878).

, Obituaries
  • New York Sun, May 12, 1885.

  • New York Times, May 12, 1885.

  • Richmond Dispatch, May 12, 1885 (quotation).