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From 1838 to 1848 he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy, and from 1848 to 1854 was professor of chemistry and natural history in the University of Alabama, for two years, also, filling the chair of English literature.

In 1854 he was ordained as deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church.

In the same year he became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the University of Mississippi, of which institution he was chancellor from 1856 until the outbreak of the Civil War, when, his sympathies being with the North, he resigned and went to Washington.

Barnard Observatory, one of the few buildings on the Ole Miss campus to survive the Civil War, is named in his honor.