Athens County is rich with Civil War history, including the story of one of the first black-
said- Leff said.- but I thought I'd see whether there was enough information to do a documentary on him.-
there was.
Leff found several articles about Holland and his military feats in The Athens Messenger.
There was a lot of driving to get to locations and interviewees ' to east Texas
where Holland was born
to-
Va.
where he won the Medal of Honor
to Washington DC for the bulk of the interviews
images and documents
and local shoots and interviews in Albany where Holland went to school and Delaware where he did his military basic training
