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Henry Walke was born on his father's plantation, "The Ferry, " in Princess Anne County, Va. , the son of Anthony and Susan (Carmichael) Walke, and a descendant of Thomas Walke who came from Barbados to Virginia in 1662. His father, a graduate of Yale College and former diplomatic agent to Algiers, settled with his family at Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1811.
Henry attended the local academy, and on Feburary 1, 1827, entered the navy as a midshipman.
During his early cruising he was at sea in two hurricanes, one in the Natchez in 1827, and another in the Ontario in 1829 in which he showed characteristic courage by leading men aloft to furl a topsail. He was made a lieutenant in 1839, sailed around the world in the Boston, 1840-43, and in the Mexican War was executive of the bomb-brig Vesuvius, participating in operations against Vera Cruz, Alvarado, Tuxpan, and Tabasco. Just before the Civil War he commanded the storeship Supply at Pensacola, and after the seizure of the Pensacola Navy Yard by the South, on January 12, 1861, he entered under a flag of truce and took its garrison and non-combatants to New York. Though obviously justifiable, this action involved leaving his station and violation of orders. He was court-martialed, but the sentence "to be admonished" was very lightly imposed. In September 1861, he joined Commodore Foote's flotilla on the upper Mississippi, and served during the next two years with great energy and distinction. Commanding the gunboat Tyler in the autumn of 1861, he was frequently under fire in reconnaissance work, and on November 7 with the Tyler and Lexington effectively covered transport and troop movements in Grant's operation against Belmont. He was shifted to the Carondelet in January 1862 and participated in the attack on Fort Henry, Tennessee River, on Feburary 6. Without returning to the base at Cairo, he then proceeded in advance to the next point of attack, Fort Donelson, Cumberland River, and on Feburary 13 carried on alone a six-hour bombardment that, in his opinion, did more damage than the attack of the four ironclads, including his own, next day. His most celebrated exploit was the subsequent running of the batteries at Island No. 10, an operation which he alone favored in the preliminary council, eagerly volunteered for, and, after thorough preparation, executed successfully on the stormy night of April 4. This was "one of the most daring and dramatic events of the war". The Carondelet, with the Pittsburg under Egbert Thompson, rendered invaluable service in covering the army's passage of the river below. The personnel of both vessels received official thanks, and General Pope wrote warmly of Walke's "thorough and brilliant" cooperation. The Carondelet was also conspicuous in engagements with the Confederate flotilla above Fort Pillow, May 10, at Memphis, June 6, and in the hard running fight with the ram Arkansas in the Yazoo River, July 15. Walke became a captain, though only after reconsidered action, on July 16, 1862. In command of the new ironclad Lafayette, February-August 1863, he fought under Porter in the passing of the Vicksburg batteries on April 16, the five-hour action at Grand Gulf, April 29, and subsequent operations until the fall of Vicksburg. From September 1863 to August 1865 he commanded the Sacramento in the Atlantic in pursuit of Confederate raiders, and held the Rappahannock blockaded at Calais for fifteen months. He was made commodore in 1866; commanded the Mound City Naval Station, 1868-69; became rear admiral in 1870; and retired in 1871. His home thereafter was in Brooklyn, N. Y.
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His skill in painting, which he cultivated in later years, is evidenced by a number of pictures, including the sketches that illustrate his Naval Scenes and Reminiscences of the Civil War (1877). This book, while historically valuable, is contentious in tone, emphasizing his war service, which he felt was inadequately recognized in his post-war assignments.
He was thrice married, to Sara J. Aim, Jane Ellen Burges, and Julia Reed, the last of whom with two sons and two daughters survived him.
