Lincoln's forgotten ally : Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky /
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. This book offers...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2011.
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Collection: | Civil War America (Series)
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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. This book offers a full-scale biography of Holt, who has long been overlooked and misunderstood by historians and students of the war. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xii, 417 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780807869383 0807869384 9781469602738 1469602733 |