Mike,

Here is a little info. on J. P. Border and T. S. Anderson from the Handbook of Texas Online.

BORDER, JOHN PELHAM (1819-1873). John Pelham Border, public official and Confederate soldier, was born in Lincolnshire, England, on February 19, 1819, the son of William and Sarah (Mell) Border. He immigrated with his parents to the United States in 1823 and lived for a time in New York before moving to Texas in 1835 as a surveyor. He first served in the Texas army from October to December 1835, and participated in the successful Goliad Campaign of 1835. Border enlisted again on April 1, 1836, and joined Capt. William Kimbro's company at the battle of San Jacinto. In 1837 he settled in San Augustine as a merchant. He was elected county clerk on January 4, 1841, appointed postmaster of San Augustine in 1842, and made a lieutenant colonel of militia in 1847. He married Catherine Elizabeth Harding on March 5, 1844; they had six children. At the outbreak of the Civil Warqv Border raised seven companies in San Augustine, Nacogdoches, Sabine, and Shelby counties. They were formed together as Border's Battalion, and he was appointed lieutenant colonel of the unit. The battalion was later joined to another battalion to form Thomas Scott Anderson' regiment, of which Border was lieutenant colonel. In May 1864 Border assumed command of Camp Ford, the stockade for federal prisoners. In several postwar memoirs, he was characterized by former prisoners as a harsh and brutal commandant. After the war he and his family settled in New Iberia, Louisiana, where he died on June 12, 1873, and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery. In 1887 his widow married Oran Milo Roberts, governor of Texas from 1879 to 1883. Catherine Elizabeth Border Roberts died on July 21, 1920, and was buried in the State Cemetery, Austin.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Louis Wiltz Kemp Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Leon Mitchell, Jr., "Camp Ford, Confederate Military Prison," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 66 (July 1962).

ANDERSON, THOMAS SCOTT (1830?-1868). T. Scott Anderson, attorney and Texas secretary of state, was born in Tennessee between 1827 and 1830 and moved to Texas in 1852. He began a law career in Austin, where he advertised his services in the local newspaper. In 1852 he served on the Provisional Railroad Association of Travis County. He was at one time a law partner of Horace Cone in Houston. Anderson served as secretary of state under Governor Hardin R. Runnels, beginning on December 22, 1857. In the gubernatorial election of 1859 Runnels lost to Sam Houston, and Anderson resigned his position on December 27 of that year. While Anderson was secretary of state, he married Mary McNeill Harper, on January 30, 1858. Shortly after their marriage the couple moved to Dallas, where they lived until 1860, when they moved to Columbus. Anderson served as a Colorado County delegate to the Secession Convention in Austin in 1861. On August 21 of that year Captain Anderson, now in the Texas State Militia, was mustered into the Confederate Army in Colorado County, with a rank of colonel. Anderson's Second Texas Regiment, a division of the Third Texas Cavalry, saw action in the Arkansas valley as well as in Tennessee, before Anderson assumed command of the Confederate Military Prison, Camp Ford, near Tyler. Once the war ended he moved back to Colorado County, to Eagle Lake, a town easily accessible to Galveston by train. He made frequent trips to the seaside city, at that time a thriving cultural and business center. Anderson died on September 25, 1868, at his home in Eagle Lake and was buried near the graves of Confederate soldiers who had died while encamped there.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: C. L. Greenwood Collection, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas, 1861 (Austin: Texas Library and Historical Commission and Texas State Library, 1912). C. W. Raines, Year Book for Texas (2 vols., Austin: Gammel-Statesman, 1902, 1903). The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (Washington: GPO, 1880-1901). Ralph A. Wooster, "An Analysis of the Membership of the Texas Secession Convention," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 62 (January 1959).

Mary Jayne Walsh

The only Captian Holt that I could find from Texas was J. M. Holt with the Texas State Troops. 1ST Batt. Cavalry TST and 2ND Infantry Regement TST. Both units served at the same time for six months and mustered out in early 1864.

Thanks,
Gary D. Bray