serviceyears branch commands death_place death_date birth_place allegiance placeofburial_label battles birth_date article_title name
1864 & ndash ; 65 csa first indian texas regiment grayson county , texas 1920 polk county , missouri confederate states of america place of burial american civil war 1843 burton allen holder
 burton allen holder
burton allen holder

burton allen holder -lrb- born between january 16 and march 16 , 1843 -- 1920 -rrb- , a member of the chickasaw tribe of native americans , gained fame as a soldier in the confederate states army during the american civil war .
during the red river campaign , holder led the 22nd texas cavalry regiment , also known as the first indian texas regiment which kept union forces out of the red river and new areas of texas for the rest of the war .
holder 's parents isaac bledsoe holder -lrb- b. december 20 , 1783 , died 1862 -rrb- and elizabeth ann stewart -lrb- born about 1793 -rrb- were raised on the chickasaw reservation in mississippi .
in the 1820s , they and the rest of the `` bleacher '' clan were removed to the indian territory -lrb- now oklahoma .
however , they stopped in southwestern missouri where the family lived for the next twenty years .
burton a. holder was born in polk county , missouri , sometime in the first three months of 1843 .
in the 1850s , the family moved to the indian territory and then to grayson county , texas , where holder was living when the civil war erupted in 1861 .
on april 25 , 1862 , holder married nellie campbell , a 20-year-old chickasaw woman who had been born in north carolina .
they raised several children .
holder enlisted in the native american forces being raised by the confederate army .
by the red river campaign in 1864 , he was in command of the 22nd texas cavalry regiment .
holder 's wife died at their home in denison , texas , in 1890 and holder died thirty years later .
they are buried in grayson county .
