He enlisted in the Confederate service as a first lieutenant in Company B, Sixth Mississippi Infantry Regiment, in 1861.

He served throughout the Civil War and surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865, as major of the Fourteenth (Consolidated) Mississippi Regiment.

He engaged in agricultural pursuits in Hinds and Rankin Counties until 1873.

His nephew, Pat Henry, was elected in a different congressional district in Mississippi in the term after he left office.

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