Editing Jakob Walter (section)

{{Short description|German soldier and chronicler of the Napoleonic Wars (1788-1864)}}
'''Jakob Walter''' (September 28, 1788 &ndash; August 3, 1864) was a German soldier and chronicler of the [[Napoleonic Wars]].  In his later years, he wrote an account of his service in the {{lang|fr|[[Grande Armée]]}}, including a detailed account of his participation in  [[Napoleon's invasion of Russia|Napoleon's Russian campaign]] of 1812. This, together with [[Joseph Abbeel]]'s diary, form the only known records of that campaign kept by common soldiers.