The Biographical Dictionary of America/Barry, Henry W.

​BARRY, Henry W., representative, was born in New York city about 1835. He received a limited education and in early manhood became principal of Locust Grove academy in Kentucky. He entered the Union army as a private in 1861, organized the first regiment of colored troops raised in Kentucky, commanded a brigade and at one time a division of the army, and was twice brevetted for gallant conduct, attaining the brevet rank of major-general of volunteers. He settled in Mississippi at the close of the war and was graduated from the Columbian Law school, D.C. He was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1867, a state senator in 1868, and was a representative from Mississippi in the 41st, 42d and 43d congresses, 1869-'75. He died in Washington, D.C., June 7, 1875.