James_B._Walton
James B. Walton
Confederate Army officer (1813–1885)
James Burdge Walton (c. 1813–1885) served for two decades in the famed New Orleans militia unit the Washington Artillery.[1] He was most prominent in the Confederate service in the American Civil War as commander of the Washington Artillery out of New Orleans and as Inspector-General of Field Artillery of the Confederate States, the highest position an artillery officer could achieve.