Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Elizabeth D. Leonard -CH) soldiers edited by Janet Elizabeth Croon

edited by Janet Elizabeth Croon

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such individuals and the groups they represent have kept a central event in American history alive in our collective memory

Rosecrans worried the North would “overlook so great an event because it is not written in letters of blood”—and history proved him right

Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Elizabeth D. Leonard -CH) soldiers edited by Janet Elizabeth Croonby Elizabeth D. Leonard 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 and 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