In this video, Elizabeth Leonard talks to the Civil War Monitor about Joseph Holt. She says Joseph Holt is “a very much forgotten personage from our historical past, and he’s someone who I think is probably one of the most important people from Lincoln’s administration who has been forgotten about.”
Elizabeth Leonard is author of Lincoln’s Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky. 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, then went on to serve as President Lincoln’s judge advocate general. Leonard offers the first full-scale biography of Holt, who has long been overlooked and misunderstood by historians and students of the war.
[This article is crossposted at uncpressblog.com.]
