WALKER, Alexander, journalist, born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, 13 October, 1819. He received a good education, taught while pursuing legal studies, was graduated at the law department of the University of Virginia, and removed to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he practised law and became a journalist at the same time. He was the editor of the" Jeffersonian," which was established as the organ of the Louisiana Democracy, and afterward of the "Delta," the "Times," the "Herald," the " Picayune," and for some time of the Cincinnati "Enquirer." He was appointed judge of the city court of New Orleans by the governor, and in January, 1861, was a member of the secession convention of Louisiana. He has published "Jackson and New Orleans" (New York, 1856);" Life of Andrew Jackson "; and, during the civil war, "History of the Battle of Shiloh" (New Orleans) and "Butler at New Orleans."