During the war, Dwight participated in more than thirty engagements, including the siege of Vicksburg (1863), the Atlanta Campaign (1864), and the Savannah Campaign (1864).[1] Shortly before the war ended, Dwight was commissioned a captain and left the military in 1865.[1]
He was ordained a minister in 1880, and returned to the United States in 1901, after resigning his commission as a missionary. In 1897, Dwight was conferred the honorary degree of LL.D. by Amherst College.[1] He edited the Report of the Ecumenical Conference on Foreign Missions (1900) and the Encyclopedia of Missions (1904). He was the author of several books:[2]
Turkish Life in War Time (1881)
Treaty Rights of American Missionaries in Turkey (1893)
Constantinople and its Problems (1901)
Blue Book of Missions (1905; second edition, 1907)
A Moslem Sir Galahad (1913; second edition, 1914)
Personal life
Henry Dwight was married three times:[1] Mary Bliss (m. 1867–d. 1872) to, Ardelle Griswold (m. 1874–d. 1884), and Isabella Bliss (m. 1887–d. 1894). He was the father of one son and five daughters.
Dwight died June 19, 1917, at his home in Roselle, New Jersey.