BIO:  CAPT. JAMES HOLDSON - SHELBY CO., KY 

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Contributed by: Diana Flynn "ivie@tima.com"
Date: Sunday, July 12, 1998 8:29 PM
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HOLDSON,   DOUGAN,   WALLACE,   BEDWELL,   BURTON

"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO.,  PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., INDIANA
JEFFERSON TWP.
PAGE 790

CAPT. JAMES HOLDSON, farmer, P. O. Pleasantville, was born in Shelby
County, Ky., January 20, 1813, son of James and Lilla (Dougan) Holdson.
He settled in Jefferson Township, Sullivan County, in the year 1817, and
has been a farmer ever since.  He was married to Naomi Wallace, when he
was about twenty-two years old, and to their union the following children
were born:  Joseph, Nancy, Stephen and Laura.  His second wife was
Angeline Bedwell, and to this union one child was born--Harriet.  His
second wife dying, he married Sarah Burton, on the 9th of June, 1873, and
to this union two children have been born--Cynthia Ann and James Arthur.
He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and politically a
Republican.  Mr. Holdson was in the Mexican war, enlisting June 6, 1846,
and was at the battle of Buena Vista, and then returned home, after being
discharged at New Orleans;  he arrived July 4, 1847.  In 1862, he enlisted
in the Union army, and was commissioned Captain of Company H, Second
Indiana Volunteer Infantry, by Gov. Morton, on the 22d day of August,
1862, and was with Sherman through some of his hard fighting; was in the
battles of Vicksburg and Hain's Bluff, Jackson, Mission Ridge, and was
wounded at Dallas five times, when he was sent to the hospital, and was
furloughed;  went home, where he staid thirty days, and then met his
regiment at Atlanta, Ga., and was at the battle of Jonesboro;  then went
to Nashville, Tenn., and from there to the coast, fighting hard all the
way through defeating the rebels at Macon, killing and capturing 2,300
men, and losing only seventy of their forces, and from there went to
Rolla, and then to Bentonville, where they had a hard fight with Johnston,
defeating him;  then went to Columbia, S. C., then to North Carolina, and
thence to Washington, mustering out on the 10th day of June, 1865, when
they were paid off at Indianapolis, and returned home, receiving an
honorable discharge, and feeling satisfied the war was over, returning to
his family, where he owns and runs a farm of 265 acres of land.

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