Federal Troops Landing on the Kentucky Shore, Opposite Cairo, for the Purpose of Building Fort Holt.
Fort Holt was situated on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, and almost opposite Cairo. It was named in honor of that noble Kentuckian, Joseph Holt, who, during the time he held the War Department, after the defection of Floyd, endeavored to repair the damage done by his fraudulent predecessor.
(from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated History of the Civil War…, edited by Louis Shepheard Moat, Published by Mrs. Frank Leslie, New York, 1895)