Category: Series: E.P. Holland – The Veteran Who Kept the Record

  • E. P. Holland – Part 1: The World That Formed Him

    Part of Series: E. P. Holland – The Veteran Who Kept the Record Enoch Philips Holland wrote those words in an undated Memoir of Capt. Espy, preserved today within the archival collections of the Andrew Carnegie Free Library in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, and addressed to the “Commander and Comrades of Capt. Thomas Espy Post 153, G.A.R.,…

  • E. P. Holland – Introduction: “I Did Not Put Down the Rebellion”

    Part of Series: E. P. Holland – The Veteran Who Kept the Record Enoch Philips Holland wrote those words late in life, after a fellow veteran asked him to record his memories of the Civil War. He might have begun with enlistment, battle, hardship, or service. Instead, he began by cutting himself down to size.…