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David Eldred Holt

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David Eldred Holt
BornNovember 27, 1843
Wilkinson County, Mississippi
DiedNovember 5, 1925
Atlantic Beach, Duval County, Florida
NationalityUS
OccupationMinister in the Episcopal Church
Known forMemoirs of his experience in the Civil War

David Eldred Holt (November 27, 1843 – November 5, 1925) was an Episcopalian clergy. He is known for a memoir that he wrote about his experiences as a soldier in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Holt, David Eldred". American National Biography. Oxford University Press. Subscription needed.
  • "A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of David Holt," 1995, Edited by Thomas D. Cockrell and Michael B. Ballard, ISBN 0-8071-1981-4.
  • "A Genealogical History of the Holt Family in the United States (more particularly the descendants of Nicholas Holt of Newbury and Andover Mass. 1634-1644, and of William Holt of New Haven, Conn," Chapter 1, The Holt Family of Virginia, 1864, Albany, NY.