Mexican War: S.E. Holland, Private, 1st Texas Mounted Volunteers, service date 5/1/1847, enlistment in Austin, age 20; Samuel E. Holland, Private, Bell's Regiment, Texas Mounted Volunteers, service date 10/25/1848, enlistment at McCulloch's Station, Texas, age 22. U.S., Compiled Military Service Records for American Volunteer Soldiers, Mexican War, 1845-1848; Texas, U.S., Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 (Ranger Rolls - Statehood).
Confederate States Army: Burnet Guards, Burnet County, Cav. Co., 27th Brigade, Captain Wm. H. Magill, enlistment 1/8/1861; Private, Co. for Burnet County, 3rd Frontier District, Captain Jas. P. Magill, enlistment 1864 in Burnet County and mustered into service 1/28/1864. S.E. Holland, Texas, U.S., Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900 (Civil War Index - Abstracts of Muster Rolls).
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S.E. Holland, birth date 12/6/1826, death date 11/19/1917, portrait, burial in Holland Cemetery, Burnet, Burnet County, with spouse Clara A. Holland.
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Mexican War, United States Army, served under Samuel Highsmith, then Col. John Coffee Hays' regiment, later served as Private under Captain Henry E. McCulloch in Bell's Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers; Confederate States Army, frontier scout in Captain James P. Magill's company of the Burnet Guards in the 27th Brigade.
Handbook of Texas Online .
Portrait and biographical sketch, Samuel E. Holland, pp. 289-292. Samuel Ely Holland, born 12/6/1826 in Merryweather County, Georgia.
Types of Successful Men of Texas 1890.