During the Civil War, he worked for the Commissary Department of the Confederate States under John Breckenridge.

After his term as mayor was up, he won his first stint in the Virginia General Assembly where he served until 1879.

During the 1877-79 General Assembly meeting, he served as Chairman of the Virginia House of Delegates Schools and Colleges Committee.

[4] He won his second stint in 1881 and was voted Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates during the 1881-82 General Assembly Meeting.

[5] After his term as speaker was up, he served as Clerk of the U. S. District Court in Abingdon, until shortly before he died in 1904.