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Since Lowry's CMSR offers spare info and pension records are of no help then you might consider a few other approaches:
1) Do you know where this fellow is buried? If so, have you determined whether there might be a Confederate veteran marker on his grave?
2) Have you checked to see if there is a United Confederate Veterans roster extant for the area of Missouri where he lived or the area of Kentucky where he enlisted? It's possible that he was active in the organization and might have attended reunions. When they had reunions they would print a list of attendees with, I think, some basic info such as where they resided. Don't hold me to that but I somehow recall that from looking at some old UCV rosters.
UVC national records are held by LSU in its special collections:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/findaid/u1357.html
Some individual chapter records also exist but many have been lost. You would probably have to check with the local historical/genealogical society to see if they can help.
3) In 1890 a Veterans Census was taken and although it was supposed to include only Union veterans, sometimes Confederate veterans were included in error. I have read that this was particularly common in border states such as Missouri. You might want to look into this remote possibility.
4)Do you have access to a good genealogy library? If so, you might want to research "Confederate Veteran" magazine. It is indexed by surname so its relatively easy to go to the actual edition and see what it has, assuming the name appears.
5)Have you checked to see if there might have been published something like a Goodspeed's Historical and Biographical Sketch for the area where he lived? These vanity publications were popular during the 1890s-1900s and whenever a fellow appeared in one, he almost always mentioned his military service. Most veterans, Union and Confederate, were quite proud of their service.
6) Have you checked to see what newspaper resources exist of the area during the time Mr. Lowry lived there? It's possible that his obituary appeared and there is always the chance that his military service, if any, was mentioned. If you are lucky, perhaps someone has abstracted genealogical data and published it in book form.
7) The University of Missouri/State Historical Society hold many Missouri records compiled by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. You might be interested in their holdings:
http://whmc.umsystem.edu/invent/3188.html
Much of this materials appears to relate to Missouri units but there are also rosters, veteran burials, etc.
Just a few suggestions, none of this is necessarily easy to access but the proof might be contained in this material. You might get lucky and find the answer straight away. Good luck.
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