| After his mustering out from the service he was employed in the Bureau of Civil Affairs at Headquarters Dept of the South at Charleston, SC and thereafter assigned as chief clerk in the Adjutant General's office at those headquarters. He was subsequently assigned to Freedmens's Bureau in South Carolina. In 1868 he entered the State Treasury offce in South Carolina as book-keeper, became chief clerk, and served in that capacity until Jan 1 1871 when he resigned to assume the duties of superintendent and treasurer of the Chronicle Publishing Co, and business manager of the Washington DC Daily Chronicle, which position he resigned in August, 1872. He 1874 he had charge of the assets of the Bank of the State of South Carolina at Charleston. |