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Natt Holman
NATT HOLMAN, LaGrange, Texas—Born June 24, 1842, near San Phillipe, Texas. Enlisted in the Confederate Army in September, 1861, at LaGrange, Texas, as private in Company A, E. B. Nichols' Regiment. First Captain was Fred Tate. Was transferred to Terry's Rangers or Eighth Texas Cavalry, Company F, Captain, W. R. Jarman, and remained with the "Rangers" through the Bragg and Johnston campaigns and until we were surrendered in North Carolina.
Was wounded in the knee at Tuscumbia, Ala., in the right foot at LaGrange, Tenn., also slightly wounded on the head at Bentonville, N. C. These were all slight wounds and I remained on duty all the while.
Was in the campaign around Atlanta, Stone River, Averasboro, Bentonville, Holly Springs, Waynesboro, Ga.; Coffeeville, and dozens of other places too numerous to mention.
Yeary, Mamie. Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray. McGregor, Texas, 1912.
Page 346.