Walter Alexander Montgomery (February 17, 1845 – November 26, 1921) was a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War, and later a lawyer and a justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 1895 to 1905.
[2] Montgomery enlisted during the Civil War at the age of sixteen, joining the 1st North Carolina Cavalry Regiment in 1861.
He was "discharged because of physical disability" a month later,[3] having been diagnosed by a military doctor as having consumption due to his small size and apparent frailty, but shortly thereafter traveled to Norfolk, Virginia, and reenlisted with the Second North Carolina Volunteers.
[2] He attended Warrenton Academy,[3] and studied law under William Eaton, Jr., who had been Attorney General of North Carolina.
[2] He then returned to private practice,[1] also serving by appointment as a standing master for the United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina.