Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Howry na May 14, 1844 n'Oxford, Mississippi, ọ bụ nwa James M. Howry na Narcissa (Bowen) Howry. Ọ nwetara agụmakwụkwọ mbụ ya na Oxford wee bido ọmụmụ na Mahadum Mississippi, mana ọ hapụrụ kọleji ka ọ rụọ ọrụ na Agha Obodo America. Howry sonyeere ndị agha Confederate States Army nke 29th Mississippi Infantry Regiment dị ka onye nkịtị. O mechara nweta ọrụ, wee ruo ọkwa onye isi. Ahụmahụ agha Howry gụnyere agha Chickamauga,
Ugwu Lookout, Ugwu ndị ozi ala ọzọ, Resaca, New Hope Church, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, Jonesborough, na Franklin. Howry merụrụ ahụ n'agha nke Franklin, ma nọrọ n'agha ruo mgbe agha biri. Mgbe agha ahụ gasịrị, Howry bụ onye otu ogologo oge nke United Confederate Veterans. O jere ozi n'ọtụtụ ọrụ nduzi, gụnyere onye isi nke Ngalaba Ndị agha nke Northern Virginia na ọkwa nke onye isi ndị agha.