Lincoln's forgotten ally
Subtitle: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
By: Elizabeth D. Leonard
Series: Civil War America; Civil War America
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9780807835005
Subjects: Politics and government; Judges; United States; United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Dept.; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-388) and index.
Table of contents: title: Laying the foundation, 1807-1835; title: The long journey from Louisville to Washington, 1835-1857; title: Serving Buchanan, serving the nation, 1857-1860; title: Standing for the Union, 1861-1862; title: Lincoln's Judge Advocate General, September 3, 1862-April 14, 1865; title: Assassination and its aftermath, April 14, 1865-April 3, 1866; title: Fighting the tide, April 1866-December 1868; title: The Grant years, retirement, and beyond, January 1869-August 1894.