Author: Jacob ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Speech of Hon. J. Thompson, of Mississippi, on the Correspondence Between Gen. Scott and the War Department
Author: Jacob ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally
Author: Elizabeth D. LeonardPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807869384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
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 and students of the war. In his capacity as the administration's chief arbiter and enforcer of military law, Holt strove tenaciously, often against strong resistance, to implement Lincoln's wartime policies, including emancipation. After Lincoln's assassination, Holt accepted responsibility for pursuing and bringing to justice everyone involved in John Wilkes Booth's conspiracy. It was because of this role, in which he is often portrayed as a brutal prosecutor, and because of his hard position toward the South, Leonard contends, that Holt's reputation suffered. Leonard argues, however, that Holt should not be defined by what Southern sympathizers and proponents of the Lost Cause came to think of him. Lincoln's Forgotten Ally seeks to restore Holt, who dedicated both his energy and his influence to ensuring that the Federal victory would bring about lasting positive change for the nation, to his rightful place in American memory.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Niles' National Register
Author: The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science
Author: The Life of General Winfield Scott
Author: Edward Deering MansfieldPublisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Prominent Families of New York
Author: Lyman Horace WeeksPublisher:
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Author: Hezekiah Niles