Lincoln's forgotten ally [electronic resource] : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky / Elizabeth D. Leonard.
Leonard, Elizabeth D.
2011
KF368.H586 L46 2011eb
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Title Lincoln's forgotten ally [electronic resource] : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky / Elizabeth D. Leonard.
Author Leonard, Elizabeth D.
ISBN 9780807869383 (electronic bk.)
9780807835005
0807835005
Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 417 p.) : ill., ports.
Call Number KF368.H586 L46 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.0092 B
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Civil War America (Series)
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