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Walter F. McWhorter (1865)

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This Lewis County native, while serving as a commissary sergeant with the 3rd West Virginia Cavalry, captured the battle flag of the 6th Tennessee Infantry (CSA) at Sailors Creek, Virginia, on 6 April 1865.

He was born in 1836 and died in 1877 in New Milton, (Doddridge County). He is buried in the Greenbrier Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery in Doddridge County.

Walter F. McWhorter (1865)