Henry "Harry" Clay Moss, student 1859-1860

Moss enlisted in Co. E of the 30th MS Infantry on April 3, 1862. He spent much of 1862 and 1863 detailed as a clerk to the Quartermaster, Ordnance and Enrolling departments in various locations in Mississippi and Alabama. He spent several months in the hospital, and on December 13, 1864 he was retired to the Invalid Corps. He was paroled as a prisoner of war on May 16, 1865 in Marion, AL.

After the war he returned home to Yazoo County, MS and became a journalist. He was editor of a Yazoo City newspaper, the Mississippi Democrat for several years. Moss died of pneumonia in 1884.