Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Elizabeth D. Leonard -CH) soldiers Rosecrans worried the North would

Rosecrans worried the North would “overlook so great an event because it is not written in letters of blood”—and history proved him right

Nicholas Codori bought the farm in 1854 and began improving it immediately

Yet less than two years later

such individuals and the groups they represent have kept a central event in American history alive in our collective memory

edited by Janet Elizabeth Croon

Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Elizabeth D. Leonard -CH) soldiers Rosecrans worried the North wouldby 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