Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Elizabeth D. Leonard -CH) Doll Her experiences also offer an

Her experiences also offer an inside perspective of the founding of Shaw University

Along the Mississippi River and other inland waterways across the South

The book also discusses the relationship between Jack and Jennie Wade and contains five previously unpublished letters from Jennie to Jack

In the fall of 1858

Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Elizabeth D. Leonard -CH) Doll Her experiences also offer anby 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