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Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

By (author) Elizabeth D. Leonard

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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 D. Leonard offers the first full-scale biography of Holt, who has long been overlooked and misunderstood by historians and students of the war.

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Usually dispatched in 14 days
Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press
Published date | 28 Feb 2015
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 432
Dimensions | 229 x 145 x 26mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 456g
ISBN | 978-1-4696-2183-8
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BISAC | history / united states / civil war period (1850-1877)


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