Lincoln's forgotten ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky / Elizabeth D. Leonard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leonard, Elizabeth D.

Series:

Civil War America.

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judges--United States--Biography.

Judges.

United States--Politics and government--1849-1877.

United States.

United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department--History.

Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894.

Holt, Joseph.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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, Elizabeth Leonard offers the first full-scale biography of Holt, who has long been overlooked and misunderstood by historians and students of the war.In his capacity as the administration's chief arbiter and enforcer of military law, Holt strove tenaciously, often against strong res

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798893130256

9798890840646

9781469602738

1469602733

9780807869383

0807869384

OCLC:

757261068