![]() ![]() 3rd Artillery, commanded by Captain Braxton Bragg, positioned opposite the city’s main gate. James Kemp Holland was subsequently elected lieutenant “by acclamation.”Īt the opening of the Battle of Monterrey, Holland’s company was assigned to accompany a battery of the U.S. ![]() James Kemp Holland, at 24, was deemed too young to command the company, so his uncle Bird Holland was appointed captain. He was serving in the Texas Legislature when the Mexican War began, and returned to East Texas from Austin with orders from the governor to raise a raise a company of mounted rangers. Spearman Holland (1802-1872) was heavily involved in local and state politics. The extended Holland family were planters, with large holdings in land and slaves. In fact, family tradition holds that James Kemp Holland’s father, Spearman Holland, named Panola County, using a Native American word of cotton. His family emigrated to the Republic of Texas in 1842 and settled in east Texas, what is now Panola County. James Kemp Holland (left, in later life) was born in 1822 in Tennessee. James Kemp Holland is a case study of how well-intentioned but lax research can go very, very wrong. Edgerton’s SouthernHeritage411 website.Įxcept that Colonel Holland wasn’t black, or of mixed race. If you type James Kemp Holland’s name into a search engine, you’ll quickly discover that he “ became the highest ranking black, rising to the rank of Colonel and served on the staff of Governor Pendleton Murrah of Texas.” This story has been picked up a number of places, including on H. This profile has been updated to reflect that new information, as indicated in blue text - thanks! Update, October 15, 2011: In the comments, Lynna Kay Shuffield provides an update on the death of Holland’s first wife, Samuella, and two of their children in October 1865. ![]()
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