Lincoln's forgotten ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

The Resource Lincoln's forgotten ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

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Lincoln's forgotten ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

Title remainder

Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky

Statement of responsibility

Elizabeth D. Leonard

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

355.0092
B

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illustrations
portraits

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index present

LC call number

KF368.H586

LC item number

L46 2011eb

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography

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