Heavy handed: Secretary of War Edwin Stanton forced aside moderate, apolitical Major John F. Lee (below) so that his fellow Republican political partisan Holt could become judge advocate general and influence courts-martial. (Library of Congress)
Heavy handed: Secretary of War Edwin Stanton forced aside moderate, apolitical Major John F. Lee (below) so that his fellow Republican political partisan Holt could become judge advocate general and influence courts-martial. (Library of Congress)