Harris attended the University of Virginia after leaving R-MC and was practicing law in Clarksville, VA at the beginning of the war. He enlisted as a private in Co. E of the 14th VA Infantry on May 12, 1861. He was hospitalized in Williamsburg, VA in December 1861 and was discharged for disability on February 13, 1861. He was commissioned 2nd lieutenant of Co. I , 38th VA Infantry on April 29, 1862, a company he had joined in March 1862. He resigned from this company on June 28, 1862 due to ill health resulting from chronic diarrhea. He applied for a position with the CSA Treasury Department.
After the war, he returned to Mecklenburg County, VA and practiced law. He is believed to have died around 1875.
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