Broadfoot's 'Confederate Military History, Vol. XIV' states:
A. S. Holderness, M. D., of Fordyce, was born in Caswell county, North Carolina, February 6, 1834. He was educated at Dan river institute and the Caldwell school in North Carolina, and in 1855 was graduated in medicine at the medical department of the university of Pennsylvania. Coming to Arkansas for a field for professional work, he first made his home at Chambersville, and thence removed to Dallas county in 1860. There he entered the Confederate service in 1861, enlisting in Company B of O'Neil's battalion, which was afterward consolidated with the First regiment Arkansas cavalry, commanded by Col. James C. Monroe. He served as medical officer of the battalion, and assistant-surgeon of the regiment until he resigned his medical rank to accept that of first-lieutenant of Company B, Monroe's regiment, the rank in which he was serving when the army was disbanded. Throughout his service he was identified with the gallant record of Monroe's regiment, Cabell's brigade, Fagan's cavalry division, a command which was among the foremost in the defense of the soil of Arkansas, and was distinguished on many battle fields. Since the war he has been engaged mainly in the practice of medicine in Dallas county. He is one of the founders of the town of Fordyce, conducted the first business place in it and was its first mayor.
A. S. Holderness, M. D., of Fordyce, was born in Caswell county, North Carolina, February 6, 1834. He was educated at Dan river institute and the Caldwell school in North Carolina, and in 1855 was graduated in medicine at the medical department of the university of Pennsylvania. Coming to Arkansas for a field for professional work, he first made his home at Chambersville, and thence removed to Dallas county in 1860. There he entered the Confederate service in 1861, enlisting in Company B of O'Neil's battalion, which was afterward consolidated with the First regiment Arkansas cavalry, commanded by Col. James C. Monroe. He served as medical officer of the battalion, and assistant-surgeon of the regiment until he resigned his medical rank to accept that of first-lieutenant of Company B, Monroe's regiment, the rank in which he was serving when the army was disbanded. Throughout his service he was identified with the gallant record of Monroe's regiment, Cabell's brigade, Fagan's cavalry division, a command which was among the foremost in the defense of the soil of Arkansas, and was distinguished on many battle fields. Since the war he has been engaged mainly in the practice of medicine in Dallas county. He is one of the founders of the town of Fordyce, conducted the first business place in it and was its first mayor.
Broadfoot's 'Confederate Military History, Vol. XIV' states:
A. S. Holderness, M. D., of Fordyce, was born in Caswell county, North Carolina, February 6, 1834. He was educated at Dan river institute and the Caldwell school in North Carolina, and in 1855 was graduated in medicine at the medical department of the university of Pennsylvania. Coming to Arkansas for a field for professional work, he first made his home at Chambersville, and thence removed to Dallas county in 1860. There he entered the Confederate service in 1861, enlisting in Company B of O'Neil's battalion, which was afterward consolidated with the First regiment Arkansas cavalry, commanded by Col. James C. Monroe. He served as medical officer of the battalion, and assistant-surgeon of the regiment until he resigned his medical rank to accept that of first-lieutenant of Company B, Monroe's regiment, the rank in which he was serving when the army was disbanded. Throughout his service he was identified with the gallant record of Monroe's regiment, Cabell's brigade, Fagan's cavalry division, a command which was among the foremost in the defense of the soil of Arkansas, and was distinguished on many battle fields. Since the war he has been engaged mainly in the practice of medicine in Dallas county. He is one of the founders of the town of Fordyce, conducted the first business place in it and was its first mayor.
A. S. Holderness, M. D., of Fordyce, was born in Caswell county, North Carolina, February 6, 1834. He was educated at Dan river institute and the Caldwell school in North Carolina, and in 1855 was graduated in medicine at the medical department of the university of Pennsylvania. Coming to Arkansas for a field for professional work, he first made his home at Chambersville, and thence removed to Dallas county in 1860. There he entered the Confederate service in 1861, enlisting in Company B of O'Neil's battalion, which was afterward consolidated with the First regiment Arkansas cavalry, commanded by Col. James C. Monroe. He served as medical officer of the battalion, and assistant-surgeon of the regiment until he resigned his medical rank to accept that of first-lieutenant of Company B, Monroe's regiment, the rank in which he was serving when the army was disbanded. Throughout his service he was identified with the gallant record of Monroe's regiment, Cabell's brigade, Fagan's cavalry division, a command which was among the foremost in the defense of the soil of Arkansas, and was distinguished on many battle fields. Since the war he has been engaged mainly in the practice of medicine in Dallas county. He is one of the founders of the town of Fordyce, conducted the first business place in it and was its first mayor.
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