CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY:  ORLANDO N. HOLLINGSWORTH - Rusk County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson, p. 134

O. N. HOLLINGSWORTH.

Orlando N. Hollingsworth was among the bright young men that enlisted 
from Rusk county, Texas, in Capt. R. H. Cumby's Co. B, Third Texas 
Cavalry, that went to the front early in 1861, and first saw the brunt 
edges of war at the battle of Oak Hills.  He was born in Calhoun county, 
Ala., April 5, 1836. Soon after his birth his father died and in 1845 
with his mother he moved to Texas.  His early edu­cation was founded in 
the common schools of the county, and in 1859 he was graduated from the 
University of Virginia with honor.  On account of his executive ability 
he was appointed adjutant of the Third Texas Cavalry. When the assault 
was made on Corinth, in 1862, he was so badly wounded that he was 
permanently disabled from service the balance of the war.  Coronal 
Institute, located at San Marcos, was founded by him in 1864-6, and was 
long presided over by him.  He was an educator of prominence and 
advanced thought, and while holding this position he was elected 
super­intendent of public instruction and later appointed secretary of 
the board of education.  He held other positions of trust and was 
greatly esteemed for his educational and executive ability.  A man of
warm impulse, having confidence in his friends, he was early led to 
make mistakes by placing too much confidence in those who surrounded 
him as his patrons and followers.  I have no knowledge of his being 
alive or dead, but he was a warm-hearted, generous man, and was ever 
ready with his means and influence to advance the in­terest of a friend.  
He was a good and pure man.