Postbellum Career and Death
Couch returned to civilian life in Taunton after the war, where he ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 1865. He later briefly served as president of a mining company in West Virginia. Couch moved to Connecticut in 1871, where he served as the Quartermaster General, and then Adjutant General, for the state militia until 1884.
He died in Norwalk, Connecticut. He was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Taunton.
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