Person:Lynn Holt (3)

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mwellis/book/chapter13.html Lynn Banks Holt, a son of Edwin M. Holt, founder of the first Alamance Cotton Mill, moved to Graham and built a mansion southwest of the town in 1886. This home which still stands two blocks below the Graham town hall on South Maple Street was the manor-house of Mr. Holt's five-hundred-acre plantation. The mansion was decorated by Ruben Rink, famous artist of the time, and a cupola or tower was constructed, from which Mr. Holt could survey his stock farm and race track.

Banks Holt hired a horse trainer from Kentucky, and through him bought some of the best race horses in the country at that time. In addition to his interest in racing, however, Mr. Holt was an industrialist. He bought the Oneida Cotton Mills and started a wholesale and retail business in Graham.

Linn Banks Holt

Residence Alamance County NC; 19 years old.

Enlisted on 7/3/1861 at Alamance County, NC as a Private.

On 7/3/1861 he mustered into "F" Co. NC 6th Infantry He was discharged for promotion on 10/15/1861

(Prior to enlistment was a cadet at Hillsborough military
academy)

On 10/15/1861 he transferred into "I" Co. NC 8th Infantry (date and method of discharge not given)

He was listed as:

• POW 2/8/1862 Roanoke Island, NC
• Paroled 2/21/1862 Elizabeth City, NC
• Exchanged 8/15/1862 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
• Wounded 8/20/1863 Morris Island, SC (Hand wound. Or 09/06/63)
• Absent Wounded 2/28/1864 (place not stated) (Estimated days)
• Returned 3/1/1864 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
• Wounded 5/15/1864 Petersburg, VA (Head wound. Estimated date)(Flesh wounds on the face that left scars.)
• POW 9/30/1864 Fort Harrison, VA
• Returned 9/30/1864 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
• Wounded 9/30/1864 Fort Harrison, VA (Left thigh wound)(Bone fractured)
• Transferred 12/22/1864 Point Lookout, MD
• Transferred 1/2/1865 Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC
• Transferred 2/3/1865 Fort Delaware, DE
• Oath of Allegiance 6/17/1865 Fort Delaware, DE (Released)

Promotions:

• 2nd Lieut 5/16/1861 (As of Co. I 8th NC Inf)
• 1st Lieut 1/1/1864

Other Information: born 1/28/1842 in Alamance County, NC

After the War he lived in Graham, Alamance Co., NC

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

- North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster
- Confederate Military History

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Lieutenant L. Banks Holt, of Graham, Alamance county, N. C., a son of Edwin M. Holt, the pioneer of the great cotton manufacturing industry, now carried on in Alamance county by his descendants, was born January 28, 1842, and was educated at Dr. Alex Wilson's school and the military academy at Hillsboro. He entered this academy in 1859, and left in the spring of 1861 to serve with the Orange Guards in the occupation of Fort Macon.

After two months' service there he joined the regiment of Col. Charles Fisher, the Sixth North Carolina State troops, and served as drill-master until after the first battle of Manassas, in which the regiment became famous. He participated in that engagement and was commissioned as first lieutenant and assigned to the Eighth North Carolina regiment, with which he served at Roanoke island, and was captured with his regiment by the Federal troops.

After his exchange his regiment participated in numerous battles and in the engagements at Charleston, S. C., Savannah, Ga., and the capture of Plymouth. After the latter campaign he was ordered to Petersburg with his regiment and took part in some of the most desperate combats of the war in the vicinity of that place. He was severely wounded in the head at the battle of Petersburg, and after recovering and joining his regiment he was ordered with his regiment to Chaffin's Farm, where he was shot through the thigh at the battle of Fort Harrison, another ball cutting through his hair as he stopped to care for his wound.

Being captured by the enemy, he was taken to hospital at Fortress Monroe and afterward imprisoned at Old Capitol prison, Point Lookout and Fort Delaware until June 1, 1865. After his return to North Carolina, he became associated with the Alamance cotton mill, built and owned by his father, and in 1868 was interested in the building of the Carolina cotton factory, and is still a part owner in each of these pioneer factories.

In 1880 he and his brother built the celebrated Bellemont mills near Graham, he now being its sole owner and also sole proprietor of the Oneida mills at Graham; a partner in the Altamahaw mill, a stockholder in the E. M. Holt plaid mill at Burlington, in the Asheville cotton mills at Asheville, N. C., Mineola manufacturing company at Gibsonville, N. C., and other cotton mills. His business also includes banking and agriculture, his celebrated Alamance and Oak Grove farms being devoted to the breeding of standard horses, cattle and sheep, and are the most famous in the South.

The business career in which he has been instrumental in achieving the great commercial victories of the South in cotton manufacture, has been marked by the characteristics of the family, of which he is a prominent member, shrewd and successful management, and generous and humane regard for his humbler associates in industry. In the busy life that L. Banks Holt leads, in all the intelligent and well-directed efforts that he puts forth to build up the agricultural interest, the manufacturing, the stock raising and the other interests of his State, there is no desire on his part to impress his individuality either on his friends or the public generally.

On the contrary, Mr. Holt is a gentleman of retiring disposition, and what he does to win popular favor is born of a natural desire to move forward in the line of general progress. He is the personification of gentleness, integrity and industry, and these combined make him a man, a noble, big-hearted, big-brained man, capable of the accomplishment of big undertakings. Because of the gentleness of his nature he is well fitted for the easy control of the forces that are necessary aids in the establishment and operations of big industries, able at all times, because of his wisdom, his ripe experience and his excellent judgment, to impress his ideas on his business associates.

He has no political ambition and has never had any. He has always been earnestly desirous of good government, and has been among the first in his county to lend his influence to the ends he thought would best promote the prosperity and development of the State. He is a North Carolinian true to the core, loving her past, proud of her present, confident of her future. Lieutenant Holt was married in October, 1865.

His hospitable home is presided over by his charming wife, who was a daughter of Hon. Giles Mebane, of Caswell county, one of the most conspicuous patriots of the State. They have seven children: Mary V., Bettie M., Fannie Y., Carrie B., Cora A., Emily L. and Mattie. At this writing four of them are married: Mary V., wife of Dr. George Allen Mebane; Bettie M., wife of M. B. Wharton, Jr..; Fannie Y., wife of Henry W. Scott, and Carrie B., wife of James K. Mebane.

Owned 1,630 acres in Graham, Alamance County in 1886.