Raynors HCA 2016-10
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Partly Printed Document Signed “J.P. Benjamin” as Secretary of War of the Confederate States of America, 1p, 8.25” x 10.5”. Richmond, December 31, 1861. Completed in manuscript. Soiling, light damp staining, paper loss at lower horizontal fold not affecting legibility. Matted incorrectly with an image of his successor, George W. Randolph, in an ornate frame to 24.5” x 18.75”. In apparent good condition. In part, To “Lt. Col. James H. Holman 1st Tenn. Regt PA.” In part, “You are hereby informed that the President has appointed you Lieutenant Colonel 1st Tenn Regt PA To take rank & c April 27th 1861 In the Provisional Army in the service of the Confederate States … Report for duty to Col. Turney…” In the lower left is penned in an unknown hand “Genl GTB,” General Gustave Toutant Beauregard. On January 26, 1862, General P. G. T. Beauregard was ordered west as second-in-command to Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. The Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America reports the appointments on December 31, 1861 in “First Tennessee Regiment, Provisional Army. Colonel. Peter Turney, of Tennessee, to take rank April 27, 1861. Lieutenant-colonel. James H. Holman, of Tennessee, to take rank April 27, 1861…” James Hardy Holman (1836-1910), appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the First Regiment of Infantry by President Franklin Pierce in 1857 upon the recommendation of Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, resigned his commission in the U.S. Army after Fort Sumter. He served throughout the Civil War in the First Tennessee and with the Confederate Inspector General Department. Holman was wounded and captured on September 23, 1863, in a fight near Winchester, Tennessee. He was first sent to Nashville, then to Camp Chase, Ohio, and finally to Johnson's Island, Ohio, where he was imprisoned until October 1864 when he was paroled and sent to Richmond. On January 1, 1865, Holman was assigned to duty under General Edmund Kirby-Smith, commanding the Trans-Mississippi Department, and was attached to the army of General J.B. Magruder, of the Department of Texas.
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