Walter A. Burleigh

Walter Atwood Burleigh (October 25, 1820 – March 7, 1896) was an American physician, lawyer, and pioneer.

He served in the Aroostook War in 1839, studied medicine in Burlington, Vermont and Manhattan, New York City, and began his practice in Richmond, Maine.

On March 31, 1868, Burleigh testified in the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, having been called as a witness by the prosecution.

[1] Burleigh was a member of the Dakota Territorial council in 1877, then worked as a contractor and in farming, and moved to Miles City, Montana 1879, where he practiced law.

[Quoted in Colin G. Calloway, ed., Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (Boston: Bedford, 1996), 97–100.]