In 1910, he voluntarily resigned the work at Bethany and the office of stated clerk of the Presbytery, and located at Eufaula.
After the capitulation of the armies, he returned to Eufaula, and resumed the practice of law.
The course of the Federal troops in Eufaula was much as it was elsewhere.
The war being over, General Baker returned to Eufaula, where he resided till his death.
In Eufaula occurred the most serious riot of the Reconstruction period that occurred in Alabama.