[1] After eight years, the two dissolved the partnership by mutual consent, but remained friends.

[2] Barr continued in private practice until 1864, when he formed a new law firm with John Kemp Goodloe.

[1] When the Civil War commenced, he helped organize the Kentucky Home Guard and served as adjutant general of the Louisville brigade.

[1] In 1868, Alexander Pope Humphrey joined the firm, which continued until Barr's appointment to a federal judgeship in 1880.

[1] On April 9, 1880, President Rutherford B. Hayes nominated Barr to the United States District Court for the District of Kentucky, replacing Judge William Hercules Hays.

[1] He was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 16, 1880, and received his commission the same day.