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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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r of war, nor aperson not in the military or naval service. Among the otherpoints decided was that tlie suspension of the jjrivilege of thewrit of liahcas corpus did not sus))end the writ itself. This caseWAS important, as according to it liundreds of trials by militarycomniission in the loyal States were invalid. How many ))ersons were thus arrested and imprisonedAvithout warrant during the course of the war cannot now hesettled with any degree of accuracy, according to the statementof General F. C. Ainsworth, Mhen chief of the Record andPension Office. The records of the Federal commissary-gen-eral of j)risoners from February, 1862, until the close of thewar show that 13,535 citizens were arrested and confined undervarious cliarges. General Ainsworth is certain, however, thatmany arrests, possibly several thousand, were made by militarycommanders or provost-marshals, and were not reported to thecommissary-general of ))risoners. Contrary to the usual ojjinion, arrests without warrant
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lEVIEW OF I(EVIE.%S CO. MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY COMMISSION FOR THE TRL\L OF THE LINCOLN CONSPIRATORS Here are two more members of President Johnsons court of nine army officers appointed for the trial of theLincoln conspirators, the Judge advocate, and one of his assistants. From left to right, they are: the Hon-orable Joseph Holt. Judge advocate; General Robert S. Foster; Colonel H. L. Burnett, who assisted JndgeHolt- and Colonel C. R. Clendenin. The two members of the court not shown on tins and a precednigpage were General Albion P. Howe and Colonel C. H. Tompkins. The military trial in Waslnngton beforethis court was as extraordinary, as were the methods of treating the prisoners, the chief of whom were keptchained and with heavy bags over their heads. Looking back, the whole affair seems more like a nieducvalproceeding than a legal prosecution in the last century; but the nation was in a state of fever and it wasnot to be expected that calmness would prevail in dealing with the c

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