James Hardy Holman

A native of Lincoln County, Holman was born on March 7, 1836. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army from 1857 until 1861. He became lieutenant colonel of the 1st Tennessee in April 1861 but was not reelected the following April. In January of 1863, he was serving as a lieutenant in command of a conscript camp in Knoxville. He later served as an aide to General Taylor.

After the War, Holman was a lawyer and a leader of the prohibition movement in Fayetteville, Tennessee. He died there on March 27, 1910 and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery.