Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Elizabeth D. Leonard -CH) hat or soldiers during the war

or soldiers during the war

Initial encounters

continuing harassment from Yankee troopers who would operate in the South for well over two years after the Gettysburg disaster

Pious general Oliver Otis Howard secured the high ground of Cemetery Ridge for the Union on the first day

won the war for the Union forces

Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Elizabeth D. Leonard -CH) hat or soldiers during the warby 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