Calvin Harvey Walker, a colonel in the confederate army was born in Maury, Tennessee on the 11th of Nov 1823 and passed away on the 22nd of Jun 1864 in Marietta, Georgia, US. Killed during the battle of Kolb's Farm in Georgia. He was remembered by his soldiers as a father figure and as a mentor. Colonel Walker although being on the wrong side of the war and the race issue was also motivated by loyalty to his state and indoctrination. Drafts and enrollment in the armed forces have been a major issue in the past and show the public's outlook on the war. My goal in this paper is to bring forward the connections between the current real world conditioning of recruits to the armed forces and the tactics employed by military recruiters during previous…show more content… It is also about what was done with his remains personal effects such as his sword, New Testament bible, and belt. There were other artifacts that along with the personal effects were donated to a museum. The writing shows the deep relationship between the confederate soldiers and their superiors, it being not that different from any other soldier and commanding officer showing that even in the south there were good soldiers despite their political ideations. This articles also seems to not side with the established patronizing idea that the south had some good people. It appears outlandish to people today as they associate everything in the civil war with bigotry and racism on the confederacy's part. The article also shows a disconnect between the idolized version of a military funeral and the horrid conditions of a warzone. The phrase "Honoring Those Who Served" is thrown around a lot but these days, the article tells of the brutal decapitation of the colonel and tells of how his men watched him die as the shell separated half of his head from the other part and his probable mass grave burial. “The dead were almost wholly unburied, and the stench arising from it was such as to breed a
