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William Henry Hollyday

Name: William Henry Hollyday

Affiliation: Confederate

Unit: 2nd MD Inf.; 1st MD Inf.

Race: White

Place of Birth/Residence: Hagerstown, Washington County, MD

Enlistment Date: 07/08/1861

Company: A (2nd); 2nd H (1st)

Rank at End of Service: Private; Sergeant

Notes:

"...shot by Union Sharpshooters while carrying water to their wounded"; Re-interred in 1874


Source(s):

Robert J. Driver, Jr., First and Second Maryland Infantry, C.S.A. (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Inc., 2003), 442; Daniel D. Hartzler, Marylanders in the Confederacy (Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1986), 178; Thomas Vincent Huntsberry and Joanne Huntsberry, Maryland in the Civil War (Baltimore: J. Mart Publishers, 1985), 71; Roger Keller, Roster of Civil War Soldiers from Washington County, Maryland (Clearfield Co.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 1998).

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