Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Elizabeth D. Leonard -CH) Doll and the American Gynecological and

and the American Gynecological and Obstetrical Society

In the fall of 1858

Americans' participation in these funeral rites led to contemplation and contestation over the political and social meanings of the war and the roles played by the honored dead

The book also discusses the relationship between Jack and Jennie Wade and contains five previously unpublished letters from Jennie to Jack

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

Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky (Elizabeth D. Leonard -CH) Doll and the American Gynecological andby 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