Fleming attended the University of N.C. after R-MC, graduating in 1859. He moved to Arkansas in 1860, where he was engaged in farming when he enlisted on June 14, 1862 as 2nd lieutenant in Co. E of the 33rd AR Infantry. In the spring of 863, he was the acting adjutant. In June of 1863, he was ill. By February 1864, he was once again ill, and in March 1864, he resigned with a surgeon's certificate of disability citing "hepatitis chronica and general physical disability" as the causes.
He returned to farming in Arkansas, moving back to his native North Carolina in 1870 where he was a farmer, merchant, and magistrate until he was elected warden deputy warden of the state penitentiary in 1883, becoming warden in 1893. He died March 18, 1921.
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