Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror (Stewart L. Winger, Johnathan W. White - AR) jackon March 1865

March 1865

DAVID SULLIVAN

Hardcover  |  S/L #32976

in a revised Sesquicentennial edition

4" Brass Barrel

Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror (Stewart L. Winger, Johnathan W. White - AR) jackon March 1865Edited by: Jonathan W White & Stewart L Winger Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered: Race and Civil Liberties from the Lincoln Administration to the War on Terror At the very end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin P. Milligan and his coconspirators in Indiana of fomenting a general insurrection and sentenced them to hang. On appeal, in Ex parte Milligan the US Supreme Court sided with the conspirators, ruling that it was unconstitutional