Henry M. Carr was born around 1829 in Ohio. By the early 1860s, he was working as a lawyer in Crawfordsville, Indiana.  

 

In April 1861, he received a commission as a captain in Company G of the 11^th Indiana Infantry. The regiment spent the next few months in western Virginia, and he mustered out in early August 1861. He served as colonel of the 58^th Indiana Infantry from November 1861 until he resigned on June 25, 1862. He later served as a major in the 72^nd Indiana Infantry.

 

He married Emma Birdsong on September 15, 1868, and they had at least three children: Alice, born around 1870; Grace, born around 1872; and George, born around 1876. They lived in Louisville, Kentucky, and Carr worked as a lawyer and “pension claim agent.” By 1870, he owned $5,000 of real estate and $500 of personal property. According to a local writer, in the early 1880s, he was “disbarred from practice for exacting extortionate and illegal fees in a pension case.” His health began deteriorating soon afterward, and he died in Louisville on March 18, 1884.

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