Henry was born in Baltimore, MD (MY home town as well!) in 1832 and led a fairly good life and existence during his childhood. He was a relative to William Henry Harrison (US President for barely a month because of pneumonia in 1841). His family moved out to Mississippi when he was about 10 years old and he had two brothers and a sister. His parents passed away from illnesses when he and his siblings were in their early teens. Henry then moved back east to Virginia and this is where he was when the Civil War broke out. He was initially a Confederate soldier in 1861, but in '62 his expertise as a scout was noticed and he was discharged from the Army to work as a legitimate civilian scout. He really liked General Lee and General Longstreet, admiring them moreso than any others.. but he does not relish being referred to as a "spy" at all. No one really knows the real truth about Henry, that he was in General Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg and that he sustained two wounds from minie' balls even though they weren't considered major or debilitating injuries.. And after the war was over, he kind of drifted out of his acting roles and ended up from town to town, boasting about his scouting prowess during the war and how he "almost got the Confederacy a victory in Gettysburg", but no one would listen to his plans of strategies, but to his scouting reports only. Henry was married and had two young daughters, all three of whom he lost to "chest sickness" as he called it, which was most likely influenza, in the mid-1870s. Henry spent the last years of his life in the midwest, predominantly in St. Louis, gambling for mere existence. He died in St. Louis in 1913.
Thanks Cathy =)