William Carroll Holt (1817-1901) was born on January 6, 1817. He enlisted in Company E of the 1st West Tennessee (later 7th Tennessee Cavalry) Infantry on July 18, 1862 and with it's transferral to the 6th Tennessee Cavalry in June of 1863 became Captain of Company M. During the engagement at Bolivar, he was captured and taken prisoner to Andersonville, Georgia for a short time. He was then moved to prison camps at Macon and Savannah, Georgia and Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina. At Macon he "contracted chronic diarrhea, brought on by exposure" and remained at a hospital at Savannah for two to three months. At Columbia, Holt escaped on foot and made his way back to his command in Tennessee, traveling only at night, and rejoined them around March 11, 1865. The ordeal rendered him ineffective the remainder of the war and he resigned effective June 24, 1865. Orginally from Bloomfield, Missouri, he returned there, hoping to recuperate, but eventually returned to Bradford, T! ennessee in 1879. He died on January 23, 1901 and was buried at Sunset Cemetery near Dresden. (Sources: William Carroll Holt Military and Pension Application, National Archives, Washington D.C., courtesy of Jack Darrel Wood; The James Buckley Chapter, NSDAR, Weakley County, Tennessee Cemetery Listings, Vol. 2: 322)