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I traced my great grandfather Holland back to Clay County, Tennessee. He was born 3/15/1838 in Kentucky. His father was born in Virginia and his mother in Tennessee. He married Serena Francis Mungle around the year 1863. She was born in Tennessee, 1/10/1845. They had several children. The 1880 census lists 7 at that time. John W., Henry H., Mary J., James W., Manerva L., Scott (my father's father), and Franklin T.

William Martin Holland served in the B 5 Kentucky Calvary.

In the Macon Co. TN Census for the year 1850 I found a William and Minervia with children, Wiley,19, James,16, John,14, William, 12, (who would have been the age of my great grandfather so I am assuming it is he) Henry H.,9, Mary F.,6, Minervia A.,3, and Scott M., 1. There wasn't a lot of information provided for that year.

Macon Co. Tennessee was composed of parts of Smith & Sumner Counties. It was decided the line would run North of Mungles property. William Holland's property was nominated for place to put seat of justice in March 1842 and Britton Holland was appointed commissioner to hold elections in 1842. This was taken from HISTORY OF TENNESSEE ILLUSTRATED Sumner, Smith, Macon and Trusdale Counties.

County archives listing the slaveholders of 1860 , show William Holland of Salt Lick Creek, which was later renamed Red Boiling Springs, located in Macon County, 60 miles northeast of Nashville, holding 11 slaves of his own.   His son, John Holland, is listed as having one slave. There was much bitterness among the people of Tennessee as the Civil War came, and the Confederacy first began to call for volunteers and then to conscript, or draft, their young men.   Many Macon Countians took their young sons just across the Kentucky line to enlist in the Union Army because they were disturbed over leaving the Union. Wiley and Scott Holland enlisted in the Union Army.   Wiley became a first lieutenant in the Kentucky 5th Cavalry, and his younger brother, John, joined the infantry and later rode with bushwhackers.   The Hollands, having survived Shiloh, were to prepare for two more major conflicts. On September 19 and 20, 1863, Union and Confederate forces clashed near Chickamauga Creek, in what proved to be another of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.   The victorious Confederates drove their adversaries back into Chatanooga and seized the city.   In November of 1863, Union forces reclaimed Lookout Mountain from the Confederates in what became known as the Battle Above the Clouds.   The battle of Chatanooga ensued.   This important Federal victory opened the door to the deep south and set the stage for General William Tecumseh Sherman's march from Atlanta, Georgia, to the sea.   The North lost 5,915 men; the South lost 667.   Again, both Hollands survived.   The brothers were fighting under the command of General Sherman who marched an army across Georgia to the sea then after Savannah fell, he moved north through the Carolinas.   The general commanded a brigade at the first Battle of Bull Run, and was in command and fought with Grant at Shiloh.   His army took part in the capture of Vicksburg in 1863.   He later helped relieve the Union Army at Chattanooga. It was March 3, 1865, in the Carolinas at a place known as Monroe's Crossroads where Lt. Wiley Holland was wounded, ending his army career.   He was part of a cavalry division led by General Kilpatrick, which was a unit of Sherman's Army.   An affidavit from the war department archives describes how he was wounded while leading a charge againse the Confederate cavalry, led by General Wade Hampton. Lt. Holland, with the Kentucky 5th Cavalry, had marched until nine o'clock the previous night.   The unit stopped and set up camp at Monroe's Crossroads.   The Southern cavalry, not wanting to fight a defensive battle and i an attempt to protect the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, decided the best defense was a good offense.   They came out to meet the northern invaders of their homeland. Lt. Holland, having gotten his unit mounted, although clad in their underclothes, was leading a cavalry charge to drive the Rebels from their camp when he was knocked from his horse.   He had taken a rifle ball in his left knee. Both Holland brothers survived the war and returned home to their young families in Macon County, Tennessee.   They found a great division among their former friends and neighbors as to their different views, actions and parts played in the war.   Families split, and neighbors quarreled and sometimes fought. Harold G. Blankenship, a Macon County historian and distant cousin to the Hollands, writes:   "After the War, neighbors s;lit politically and even some religiously, over their feelings about the war--Confederate sympathizers, following the Democratic party, while most Union people became Republicans.   Macon County, even today, is split politically anong those lines.   The Hollands became Republicans.   John Holland's son, Jim, later serven Ripley County, Missouri for 28 years as a Republican county judge." The Holland family, longing for a more peaceable place to live and raise their families where they could forget the slaughter and ravages of war, moved to Ripley County, Missouri.   Minerva (Scott) and   William, their sons, Wiley, John, and Scott, and their daughter, Minerva, who was married to Beverly Donaho, settled 15 miles southwest of Doniphan in the community of Tucker. The journey to Missouri was recalled to family members by Mark and Clark Holland, twin sons of Lt. Holland, many years later.   They were boarding a train for Missouri on April 14, 1865, at Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee, when word came down the line that President Abraham Lincoln had been assassinated. The Donahos moved to the Ponder community, where they operated a gristmill for many years.   Beverly died in his eighties, but Minerva, called "Nerva Ann" by her family and friends, lived until August 4, 1947.   She died at the age of 100. The legacy of bitterness left by the war in Ripley County was no different from that left behind them in Macon County.   Horror stories emerged from such acts of violence as the slaughtering of women and children by Union troops at the Christmas Day Massacre   at Pulliam Spring, a spring from which the Holland family was to get their drinking water for the next 60 years.   This incident, and that of the burning of the town of Doniphan, were two of the worst examples of death and destruction thrust upon the civilian population of Ripley County by the military.   The post-war era in Ripley County was a very painful period of adjustment for those woefully wronged during the war.                   ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This article was taken from a book owned by Conrad Hudson. The book was published by the Prospect-News, 110 Washington Street, Doniphan, Missouri 63935.   It was Copyrighted in 1992 by the Prospect News. John Ashcroft who is not the Attorney General of the United States was the Governor of Missouri when it was published and proclaimed October 23, 24, and 25 as Civil War Days in Ripley County, Missouri. Jerry Ponder wrote The History of Ripley County.   You can contact him at the Bob Griffin Agency, 112-114 Washington St., Doniphan, MO 63935 Phone (573) 996-2148 Home: 996-3691 996-7642.   He must be right next to the Prospect-News!      My dad is buried in the Greathouse Cemetery in Temple, Bell County, Texas. Click on the picture of his grave marker to go to the cemetery pages. Some of the forums I research [HOLLAND Genforum ]   [SCOTT Genforum ]    [RUTLEDGE Genforum ]   [RANNE Genforum ]    [MUNGLE Genforum ] Some genealogy sites where I research: [ Bell County TX]   [ Ripley County MO]    [ Ripley County MO Genweb]   [Sumner County TN]   [Carroll County TN]   [Carroll County TN Genweb]   [Smith County TN]    [Giles County TN Genweb]    [McCulloch County TX Genweb]    [Monroe County KY]    [Randolph County AR] [Randolph County AR Genweb]    [Hamilton County TN] [US County Resources at Rootsweb]    [Vital Search Texas] Some of the cemeteries I have visited: [Gatewood & Tucker Cemeteries]    [North Belton Cemetery]    [Live Oak Cemetery page.] Groupsheet...Groupsheet Form The Holland Family Site Ring This site owned by Pat SiteRing by Bravenet.com Click on the to enter the kitchen. Has your family announced a reunion? 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