Served in the Confederate Congress

and was lieutenant-colonel of Confederate cavalry. After the Civil War he was President of Howard College, Alabama, and Profe or of English Philosophy and Constitutional and International Law in Richmond College, Virginia; President Board of Foreign Mi ions of Southern Baptist Convention, General Agent Peabody Edue cation Fund and John F. Slater Education Fund, etc.; author of “ Struggles and Triumphs of Virginia Baptists,” “Civil History of the Confederate Government,” ete, Died, 1903, Currying, the art of dre ing cowhides, calves’-skins, seal-skins, ete., principally for shoes, saddlery, or harne , after they have come from the tanner.