High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Waller Tazewell Patton (July 15, 1835 July 21, 1863), was a professor, attorney, and an officer of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.Waller T. Patton was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia, into a well-known family. He was named for the Governor of Virginia, Littleton Waller Tazewell. His father, John Mercer Patton, a member of the Council of State, served as Acting Governor in March 1841. An ancestor, Hugh Mercer, served as a general during the American Revolution.