Louis Howard Barry

Age 18, from Anderson in Grimes County, he enlisted on 19 July 1861 at Harrisburg, TX as a Private in Company G, 4th Texas Infantry, was appointed 4th Sergeant on 11 October, and promoted to 3rd Sergeant by August 1862.

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to First Sergeant by the end of 1863 and was wounded in his right arm in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 he was a married farmer at Anderson, TX, and went by Howard Barry. In 1880 he was a stock raiser in Jones County and a widower, living with his son and 6 stock hands. He lived for a time and was a grocer in Wynnewood, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), but returned to Texas before 1910.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His first name is often spelled Lewis.

He married Elizabeth Ann Kelly (1843-1878) in Grimes County in September 1866 and they had 4 children.

01/26/1843; Clarksville, TX

02/09/1935; Navasota, TX; burial in Oakland City Cemetery, Navasota, TX