Civil War: Henry F. Holt
Submitted by: Carolyn Pevytoe Avery on 27 May 2004
Source:West Carroll Gazette 29 June 1988



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           CIVIL WAR HISTORY OF HENRY F. HOLT
            By: Thelma Downing Pulley

The Civil War, or the War Between the States, began in 1860, by the 
secession of South Carolina from the Union, followed in 1861 by Miss-
issippi, Louisiana, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas
and North Carolina.  

The family home of Stephen Holt, near Jackson, Mississippi was burned 
by the Union Army in the early part of the Civil War. Stephen Holt, a
widower and his youngest son, Henry F. Holt, accompanied by Mammy 
Julie, refuged to Carroll Parish, Louisiana, about 1861 (to the Concord
Community).

They first settled near their Mississippi friends, the Sanders family.  
Stephen Holt opened a store at Carrollton, Louisiana on the Mississippi
River above Lake Providence.

Henry F. Holt, then about seventeen years old, went to Delhi, Louisiana
and enlisted as a Private in Co. A, 31st. La. Infantry Confederate Army, 
dated Aoril 12, 1862, Monroe, La.

In the spring of 1863, Henry recieved word by grapevine that his father
Stephen Holt, living in Carroll Parish, was near death from Choking
Quinzey. He immediatly left his military post and returned to Carroll
Parish to be with his very ill father. Stephen Holt only lived several