When the American Civil War began he enlisted as a Private in Company B, 22nd Ohio Infantry, April 17, 1861.

Later he served as colonel of the 1st West Virginia Infantry and was brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers March 13, 1865.

Enochs was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Ironton, Ohio, July 13, 1893.

He was interred in Arlington National Cemetery with his wife Annis Hamilton Enochs.

[1] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress