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William Dunbar Holder (March 6, 1824 – April 26, 1900) was a prominent

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politician and soldier.

Biography

Holder was born in Franklin County,

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, but later moved to

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. He served in the state legislature in 1853 and was a

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in the

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in the

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. In 1862, he led the 17th Mississippi Infantry Regiment in the Missouri Brigade of General Charles Clark and was wounded in the

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. He resigned his commission after another wound sustained during the

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where he commanded the 17th Mississippi Infantry, as part of Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade. In a letter to ''

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'' in October 1886, Holden wrote the following, Holder represented the state in the

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from 1864 to 1865. He served as a state auditor in 1890–1896. He died in

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on April 26, 1900.

Family

He married Catharine Theresa Bowles (1837–1887) and they had six sons and one daughter.''Tennessee: The Volunteer State, 1769-1923''
Volume 2, by John Trotwood Moore and Austin Powers Foster, 1923, pp. 704-707.

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* 1824 births 1900 deaths Confederate States Army officers Members of the Confederate House of Representatives from Mississippi 19th-century American politicians Mississippi lawyers Mississippi Democrats People from Franklin County, Tennessee 19th-century American lawyers {{AmericanCivilWar-bio-stub