Elizabeth Leonard offers the first full-scale biography of Holt
but with this effort
who suffered a wound and later received the Medal of Honor for his actions at on July 1
whose life story was falsely and intentionally appropriated to advance the Lost Cause trope of a contented slave
He also provides the most thoughtful and complete analysis of Forrest's hardscrabble childhood in backwater Mississippi
A Sight Never to Be Forgotten: Eyewitness Accounts from Union Chaplains at Gettysburg (Nancy Jill Hale, DLM) gun Elizabeth Leonard offers the firstOut of the more than 250 Union regiments that fought at Gettysburg, more than 130 were accompanied by chaplains, and about 50 of those chaplains left records of their experiences. This book includes stories of those eyewitness accounts, taken from regimental histories, letters, newspaper articles, and memoirs, that provide a unique view of the Gettysburg campaign, the battle, the soldiers, and the chaplains' role.