John Holland

Age 22, an unmarried clerk in Penhook, LA, he enlisted in Carroll Parish, LA on 20 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Captain Jones' Company, Louisiana Volunteers - the Tiger Bayou Rifles. They became Company I of the 14th Louisiana Infantry on 21 September 1861. He was wounded at Chantilly, VA on 28 August 1862.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, sent to Fort Delaware, then, on 2 October, on to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged on 10 November but was listed as absent without leave by December 1862.

He was back with his company by February 1863 and was wounded by a gunshot to his foot in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was in a Richmond, VA hospital into October 1863. He lost the second toe of his right foot and was deemed disabled, and was afterward absent on furlough and on details. He deserted on 6 March 1865 "on Piquet" [picket].

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

c. 1839 in IRELAND