April 12, 2024
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL JOSEPH HOLT
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(1807-94) A renowned lawyer and Democratic orator in Kentucky, he was President Buchanan's Commissioner of Patents (1857), Postmaster General (1859), and Secretary of War (1861). When Lincoln was inaugurated, he returned to Kentucky to try to turn that state from a policy of neutrality. He then was named colonel and the first Judge Advocate General on Sept. 3, 1862, holding the prerogative of certain civil powers of arrest and of holding persons in arrest without writ of habeas corpus. Promoted Brigadier General U.S.V., Judge Advocate General, June 22, 1864 upon the establishment of the Bureau of Military Justice, he tried Gen. Fitz John Porter as well as the Lincoln assassination conspirators and Andersonville commandant, Henry Wirz. He was severely criticized for obtaining Mrs. Suratt's death warrant by keeping the military commissioners plea of clemency for her from President Andrew Johnson. Clipped signature with title: excellent ink autograph, J. Holt, Judge Advocate General. 3 3/4 x 1 1/8. Very desirable.
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