Bird Holland (March 23, 1815[1] - April 9, 1864) was a soldier, legislator, and civil servant in Texas.
[3][4] In 1846, at the beginning of the Mexican War, Holland was named Captain of the 17th Ranger Company of the 2nd Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers.
[7] During the Civil War, Holland served as adjutant in Col. Richard B. Hubbard's 22nd Texas Infantry Regiment.
In the 1850s he purchased the freedom of William, Milton, and another brother, and sent them to a school in Ohio run by abolitionists, the Albany Manual Labor Academy.
The Rust family had possession of some of Holland's personal papers after his death but did not preserve them.