Background
HOLLIDAY, Frederick William Mackey was born on February 22, 1828 in Winchester, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of Dr. Richard John McKim Holliday and his wife Mary Catherine (Taylor).
HOLLIDAY, Frederick William Mackey was born on February 22, 1828 in Winchester, Virginia, United States, United States. Son of Dr. Richard John McKim Holliday and his wife Mary Catherine (Taylor).
Private school, northern university, law school.
He attended Winchester Academy and graduated with distinguished honors from Yale in 1847 and from the University of Virginia Law School in 1849. He was a Presbyterian. He had two childless marriages, the first to Hannah Taylor, whom he married in 1868, and, after her death, to Caroline Calvert.
Holliday began his law practice in Winchester in 1850 and was commonwealth’s attorney for the courts of Winchester and Frederick Counties from 1852 to 1861. When the war began, he volunteered for service as a captain of infantry and fought at Harper’s Ferry as part of the Stonewall Brigade. He also saw action at Winchester, McDowell’s, and Port Republic, and he was promoted to colonel before losing an arm at the battle of Cedar Run (Slaughter’s Mountain) on August 9, 1862.
He saw no further military action. Holliday was elected to the second Confederate Congress in 1864 and served for the remainder of the war. He was on the Claims and the Quartermaster’s and Commissary Department Committees.
He generally supported the Davis administration. After the war, Holliday returned to his law practice in Winchester. He was active in Democratic party politics but was unable to hold public office until after Reconstruction.
During his term as Democratic governor of Virginia from 1878 to 1882, he vetoed a plan to repudiate the state debt. He later retired to his farm and died in Winchester on May 20, 1899.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.