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1 online resource (432 pages) |
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CWA |
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CWA
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| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Laying the Foundation, 1807-1835; 2 The Long Journey from Louisville to Washington, 1835-1857; 3 Serving Buchanan, Serving the Nation, 1857-1860; 4 Standing for the Union, 1861-1862; 5 Lincoln's Judge Advocate General, September 3, 1862-April 14, 1865; 6 Assassination and Its Aftermath, April 14, 1865-April 3, 1866; 7 Fighting the Tide, April 1866-December 1868; 8 The Grant Years, Retirement, and Beyond, January 1869-August 1894; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894.
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Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894
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Holt, Joseph, 1807-1894 fast |
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United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department -- History
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United States. Army. Judge Advocate General's Department fast |
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Judges -- United States -- Biography
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Judges
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Politics and government
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1849-1877. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140438
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780807869383 |
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0807869384 |
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