"Military Science." . . "1849 - 1877" . . "HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)" . . "United States Politics and government 1849-1877." . . "Judges." . . "Judges" . "Law." . . "United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Dept" . . "United States" . . "United States." . "Politics and government" . . "Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894." . . "Juges États-Unis Biographies." . . . . "Judges United States Biography." . . "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Military." . . "Etats-Unis. Army. Judge Advocate General's Corps" . . "United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department" . . "United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department." . "États-Unis" . . "United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Dept. History." . . "\"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: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky, Elizabeth Leonard offers the first full-scale biography of Holt, who has long been overlooked and misunderstood by historians and students of the war\"--Provided by publisher." . . . . . "Electronic books"@en . . "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 allowed Mary Surratt to be hanged despite knowing her sentence had been reduced. Leonard contends that the southern view of Holt became the predominant way we see him, in large part because the memory perpetrated by the Lost Cause defined Holt as ruthless toward Southerners and the South. But Leonard argues that."@en . "Biography"@en . "Biography" . . "Lincoln's forgotten ally Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky" . "Lincoln's forgotten ally Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky"@en . "Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky" . . "Livres électroniques" . . . . "Biographie" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "History" . "History"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . "Lincoln's Forgotten Ally Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky"@en . . . "Lincoln's forgotten ally : judge advocate general joseph holt of kentucky"@en . . . . . "Lincoln's forgotten ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky" .