Burton Allen Holder (born between January 16 and March 16, 1843 – 1920) gained fame as a soldier in the

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during the

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. During the Red River Campaign, Holder led the 22nd Texas Cavalry Regiment ismountedwhich kept

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forces out of the Red River and new areas of

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for the rest of the war. Holder's parents Isaac Bledsoe Holder (b. December 20, 1783, died 1862) and Elizabeth Ann Stewart (born about 1793) were raised on the Chickasaw Reservation in

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. In the 1820s, they and the rest of the "Bleacher" clan moved to southwestern Missouri where the family lived for the next twenty years. Burton A. Holder was born in

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, sometime in the first three months of 1843. In the 1850s, the family moved to the Indian Territory and then to

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, where Holder was living when the Civil War erupted in 1861.''Five Civilized Tribes'', p. 513. On April 25, 1862, Holder married Nellie Campbell, a 20-year-woman who had been born in

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. They raised several children. Holder enlisted in the Confederate Armed forces. By the Red River Campaign in 1864, he was in command of the 22nd Texas Cavalry Regiment ismounted Holder's wife died at their home in Denison, Texas, in 1890 and Holder died thirty years later. They are buried in Grayson County.

References

* United States Department of the Interior, ''Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma: Reports of the Department of the Interior'', Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1913). * Holder, John P., et al v. Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, 1903

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Holder, Burton Allen Confederate States Army soldiers People of Missouri in the American Civil War People from Polk County, Missouri People from Denison, Texas 1843 births 1920 deaths