Holt enlisted as a private on May 30, 1862 on Co. G of the 55th NC Infantry. He was promoted to sergeant major immediately. He was transferred to Co. H and promoted to lieutenant on May 8, 1863. He was wounded in the left arm at the Battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 and taken prisoner. He was hospitalize din Gettysburg until mid-August and then transferred to a hospital in Baltimore, MD, from which he was exchanged at City Point, VA on September 27, 1863. He was hospitalized in Richmond, VA for about a week after that. He wrote a letter resigning from his rank of 2nd lieutenant on March 31, 1864 due to the aftereffects of his wounds and was detailed as a private to the quartermaster department,serving as a clerk in Raleigh, NC.
After the war, he was a businessman in Wilmington, NC until his move to Savannah, GA in 1877. His business interests in Savannah included naval stores and real estate, and he was a partner in the firm of Ellis, Holt & Co. until his death in 1886. He also served as the Recording Secretary of the Georgia Historical Society from 1884-1886. Holt died on November 17, 1886 and is buried in Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery.
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