He was born in the heat of a long Southern summer, on the fourteenth of August 1851, in the up-and-coming city of Griffin, Georgia. The only son of the oldest son, primary heir of the Holliday family and future guardian of the family’s good name, John Henry Holliday shouldered a heavy burden for which he was well groomed. From his father, Henry Burroughs Holliday, he learned the cool courage of a military man. From his mother, Alice Jane McKey Holliday, he learned the genteel ways of plantati


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