Baskerville attended Princeton University after leaving Randolph-Macon, graduating from that institution in 1841. He is a merchant in Mecklenburg county, VA in the 1850 census but moved to Lowndes County, Mississippi shortly after that date. He was a wealthy merchant and cotton broker in Columbus, Mississippi when the war began. Baskerville organized a company, Co. C of the 4th Battalion MS Cavalry and was commissioned its captain on October 1, 1861. He was promoted to major, lieutenant colonel, and to colonel. He resigned his commission in the summer of 1862 after a disgreement with General Chalmers, and later served as a cotton agent for the Confederacy for the remainder of the war. He was granted a presidential pardon on July 29, 1865.
After the war he moved to Noxubee County, MS where he farmed substantial land holdings. Baskerville died on June 23, 1890 and is buried in Friendship Cemetery in Columbus, MS.
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