After Sophia's death, he married Louise Emeline Philpot in June 1861 in Tuskegee, Alabama.
For three years, he was the president of East Alabama Female College in Tuskegee, before returning to active ministry.
[4] While preaching in Shelby County and the surrounding area, Teague lived on his farm in the Fourmile community, which he named Red Lawn.
[5] In 1886, he introduced a successful resolution at the state convention meeting to move Howard College from Marion to Birmingham[6] He also authored two books: "Sketches of the History of Shelby County," and "An Outline Picture of the Baptist denomination in Alabama in former times and incidentally in other states; consisting of sketches, pastoral and ministerial experience, and various miscellanies," (which is deposited in the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary archives[3]).
During the American Civil War, he served with the Army of Tennessee from the Chattanooga Campaign until General John Bell Hood's expedition into Georgia.