William Dunbar Holder

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William Dunbar Holder (born March 6, 1824 in Richmond , Kentucky , † April 26, 1900 in Jackson , Mississippi ) worked for both the United States and the Confederate States as a politician. He also served as an officer in the Confederate Army .

Career

William Dunbar Holder, son of Harriott Jane Dunbar (1795–1824) and Colonel Richard Calloway Holder (1790–1841), was born in Madison County , Kentucky , approximately nine years after the end of the British-American War . His father commanded a company in Kentucky during that war . His grandfather, Colonel John Holder (1744-1799), fought in the Revolutionary War and was still in Culpeper County ( Virginia resident). In 1825 the family moved to Tennessee and settled there in Franklin County . William Dunbar Holder spent his childhood there. In 1839 the family moved to Mississippi. Holder attended schools in Aberdeen ( Monroe County ) and Houston ( Chickasaw County ). He was appointed Deputy Clerk at the Federal District Court in Pontotoc ( Pontotoc County ) in 1843 and was then also active there as Deputy Marshal . Between 1845 and 1846 he tried to sign up for the upcoming Mexican-American War , but was refused. In 1853 he was elected for Pontotoc County to the Mississippi House of Representatives , where he served a term. He married on June 6, 1854 Miss Catherine Theresa Bowles (1837-1887), daughter of Mary R. Harwell (1808-1866) and Green Berry Bowles (1800-1845). The Bowles family lived in Lafayette County . The newly wed couple settled on a farm in Pontotoc County. She was the parents of ten children: Richard Callaway (* 1855), William Dunbar junior (1857-1858), Mary Paul (* 1859), Andrew Bowles (1860-1896), James King (1863-1911), Benjamin Humphreys (1866 –1947), Charles Eugene Michel (1869–1946), DeWitt Herndon (1871–1946), William Dunbar junior (1874–1941) and Catharine May “Kate” (1880–1950). Their first three children died in childhood.

When the civil war broke out , Holder immediately raised a company and was named captain by acclamation . It was Company C in the 17th  Mississippi Regiment , which Colonel Winfield Scott Featherston (1820-1891) was under. At the end of the twelve months they had signed up to, each man signed up again and Holder was unanimously appointed captain. When Colonel Featherstone was promoted to Brigadier General a short time later , Captain Holder succeeded him as Colonel of the regiment. Holder took part in the First Battle of Manassas and the battles of Leesburg , Gaines Mill (third battle of the seven-day battle during the Peninsula Campaign ), Chancellorsville and Gettysburg, along with numerous skirmishes. At Malvern Hill he broke his thigh close to his body and at Gettysburg he was injured in the abdomen so badly that he almost died from it. This last wound made it impossible for him to continue fighting. Holder was elected to the first Confederate Congress in a by-election without an election campaign or tender to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Brigadier General Reuben Davis (1813-1890) on March 1, 1863. He took up his post on January 21, 1864. He did not return his officer license until the Board of Surgeons in Richmond, Virginia, after a careful investigation, stated that he was unfit for further field service. Holder therefore decided to remain in the Confederate Congress . He was elected to the second Confederate Congress and worked there until the end of the war.

After the war, he returned to his family on his farm in Pontotoc County. From there the family moved to Shelby County, Tennessee for a brief period in 1872 , but then moved back to Lafayette County, Mississippi. Holder was appointed Deputy State Auditor in 1886 and Auditor of Public Accounts for a four-year term in 1895 , beginning January 1896. He died in Jackson, Hinds County in 1900, and was buried there in Greenwood Cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b William Dunbar Holder on the ancestry.com website
  2. ↑ Harriott Jane Dunbar on the ancestry.com website
  3. ↑ Richard Calloway Holder on the ancestry.com website
  4. ↑ John Holder on the ancestry.com website
  5. ↑ Catherine Theresa Bowles Holder in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  6. ^ Bowles Family of Lafayette County - Third Generation
  7. ↑ William Dunbar Holder on the records.ancestry.ca website
  8. ↑ James King Holder in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  9. ^ DeWitt Herndon Holder in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  10. ^ William Dunbar Holder, Jr. in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  11. ↑ Catharine May "Kate" Holder in the Find a Grave database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Holder, William Dunbar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American and Confederate politician and officer in the Confederate Army
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH April 26, 1900
Place of death Jackson , Mississippi