Lincoln's forgotten ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky / Elizabeth D. Leonard.
- Title
- Lincoln's forgotten ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky / Elizabeth D. Leonard.
- Published by
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xii, 417 p. : ill., ports.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Joseph Holt, the stern, brilliant, and deeply committed Unionist from Kentucky, spent the first several months of the American Civil War successfully laboring to maintain Kentucky's loyalty to the Union, then went on to serve as President Lincoln's judge advocate general. In Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky, Elizabeth Leonard offers the first full-scale biography of Holt, who has long been overlooked and misunderstood by historians and students of the war"--Provided by publisher.
- Series statement
- Civil War America
- Uniform title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- History
- Contents
- Laying the foundation, 1807-1835 -- The long journey from Louisville to Washington, 1835-1857 -- Serving Buchanan, serving the nation, 1857-1860 -- Standing for the Union, 1861-1862 -- Lincoln's Judge Advocate General, September 3, 1862-April 14, 1865 -- Assassination and its aftermath, April 14, 1865-April 3, 1866 -- Fighting the tide, April 1866-December 1868 -- The Grant years, retirement, and beyond, January 1869-August 1894.
- Owning institution
- Harvard Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-388) and index.
- Processing action (note)
- committed to retain