Lincoln's Forgotten Ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky.
This manuscript is the first biography of Joseph Holt, the U.S. Army's Judge Advocate General during the Civil War. Leonard argues that Holt has been portrayed as more or less a caricature of himself, flatly represented as the brutal prosecutor of Lincoln's assassins and the judge who allo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2011.
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| ISBN: | 9780807869383 0807869384 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Laying the Foundation, 1807-1835; 2 The Long Journey from Louisville to Washington, 1835-1857; 3 Serving Buchanan, Serving the Nation, 1857-1860; 4 Standing for the Union, 1861-1862; 5 Lincoln's Judge Advocate General, September 3, 1862-April 14, 1865; 6 Assassination and Its Aftermath, April 14, 1865-April 3, 1866; 7 Fighting the Tide, April 1866-December 1868; 8 The Grant Years, Retirement, and Beyond, January 1869-August 1894; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.