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Holder Green Berry – Born 22 Dec 1843 Died 18 June 1914 New Front Add Ter #1 born Lawrenceville Ga. Buried in Myrtle Hill Cemetery Floyd County Confederate Section Green married Ansibelle Penelope Swords (of Cherokee County, AL) on 27 Dec 1866 in Rome, Floyd County, Georgia Green Berry Holder was born in Lawrenceville, GA, in Gwinnett County. He enlisted in the Confederate Army on 6 March 1862, serving in Company D, 9th Georgia Battalion, Leyden's Artillery (Major Austin Leyden). He served for three years, and was wounded in the wrist at Appomattox, VA, on 8 April 1865. The following is taken from "Confederate Military History, A Library of Confederate States History, in Twelve Volumes, Written by Distinguished Men of the South, and Edited by Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia....", Vol. VI. Atlanta, Confederate Publishing Company. 1899. Pp. 727-728.: "Green B. Holder, of Rome, served as a Confederate soldier with the Ninth Georgia battalion of artillery in east Tennessee and Virginia. He was born at Lawrenceville, Ga., and left home at the age of fifteen years to fight for the South, enlisting in Capt. T. M. Peeples' company, D, of the Ninth Artillery battalion. He was mustered into the Confederate service near Bristol, Tenn., in March, 1862, and was on active duty until the surrender at Appomattox. After participating in numerous engagements in east Tennessee and southwest Virginia, among them the battle of Wytheville, Va., he took part in the operations against the Federal column under General Hunter that was threatening Lynchburg in the spring of 1864, and after the defeat of the enemy, campaigned down the Shenandoah valley as far as Winchester. Then, under orders from Richmond, he and his comrades turned over their guns at Wayne's Gap, and went to Richmond, where they were on duty with the heavy artillery. During the siege of Richmond and Petersburg, July, 1864, to April, 1865, they were on duty at Fort Gilmer and Fort Hoke, and when the Confederate lines were finally broken, April 2, 1865, they spiked their siege guns, blew up their magazines, and marched out with Lee's army. On the evening before the surrrender at Appomattox Court House, he was wounded in the wrist. Reaching home on April 29, 1865, Mr. Holder remained there for a few months, and in December following made his home in Floyd County. He came to Rome, GA, in 1865.